Feb. 12, 2021
8:58 p.m.
On Feb 12, 2021, at 12:49 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
On filesystems that support neither hard links nor symlinks,
A category into which neither HFS+ nor APFS falls; they both support both hard links and symlinks. (I think HFS+'s implementation of hard links is *internally* a bit unusual, but they have the full semantics of POSIX hard links.) The same applies, as far as I know, to all the main Linux local file systems. So I don't know why Ubuntu (and possibly Debian) use symlinks, or why macOS is using copies, unless they're both trying to support VFAT or something such as that.