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Creating an archive folder does help because then Time Machine can create one hard link for the directory rather than a folder containing thousands of hard link

by mjtsai 17y ago

Creating an archive folder does help because then Time Machine can create one hard link for the directory rather than a folder containing thousands of hard links to individual message files. The archive folder is for Apple Mail, not Entourage. Entourage stores all the mail in a single database so it doesn't matter which folders the messages are in.

tesseract 17y ago
Traditionally (and even now in most unices) hard links to directories were not allowed, in order to prevent endless recursive cases. Apple added the feature to HFS+ in 10.5 so that Time Machine could make use of the optimization you describe. There are rules about directory hard links so that pathological recursion still cannot happen: http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-dev/2007/Dec/msg00029.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-dev/2007/Dec/msg00029...