> Did setting SF_FIRMLINK ever succeed for real? It should have been working fine right? Otherwise CCC team would have reported this bug in the earlier release

> Did setting SF_FIRMLINK ever succeed for real? It should have been working fine right? Otherwise CCC team would have reported this bug in the earlier release. As what Mike Bombich said in the original post: The chflags() system call can no longer set the SF_FIRMLINK flag on a folder on an APFS volume. The keyword was "no longer".