renaming MacPorts' install directory - how to handle the TM backup(s)?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 1:14 PM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday September 07 2014 10:24:09 Brandon Allbery wrote:
> > from overwriting a file (you'd want to break the hardlink first if you
> only
> > want it to affect that backup, and for that-backup-and-forward you'd need
> > to re-hardlink the later backups with the original inode number).
>
> A mv (rename) shouldn't change the inode, if at least the operation works
> the same way as on a more standard FS (without directory hardlinks :))
>

Yes, I was saying any operation other than actually writing the file should
be safe, and then saying what would be needed in the
actually-writing-the-file case to make it safe.

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