On 27 Jun 2017, at 22:45, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote: > > Agreed. Thanks for the code, and for showing the other techniques. In my > case, I still have to support HFS+, and I want to do that with hard links. I > wish there was an API to clone-or-hardlink, but I can do that.
Perhaps worth emphasising here, since you mention hard links, that the difference between hard links and clones is that clones are copy-on-write. i.e. if you hard link a file, and then change the data, *all of the linked copies will change too*. I’m sure that’s not an issue in your application, but if someone later happens across this thread and thinks “What a great idea!”, mentioning that the two are only equivalent for the read-only case might avoid some pain. Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
