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I wonder what kind of link he used? Can directories have hard links on HFS+?
by RexRollman 14y ago
I wonder what kind of link he used? Can directories have hard links on HFS+?
- __david__ 14y agoYes. That is, in fact, how Time Machine backs up so quickly. But I believe there are no userspace utilities to create them (and major POSIX assumptions break down, so you need to be careful if you do it in your everyday data).
- novas0x2a 14y agoMuch to my surprise, rsync on osx (with the --link-dest arg, iirc) can create directory hardlinks. I was unable to figure out any other tool to delete them; I ended up having to rsync an empty directory on top.