macports' hardlinks and time machine backups

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 14, 2017, at 19:04, Peter West wrote:

> When I see MiB, I think million bytes. Is this wrong?

Yes, that is wrong, or at least is not what other people mean.

1 MB = one megabyte = 10^6 bytes = 1,000,000 bytes
1 MiB = one mebibyte (what we used to call one megabyte) = 2^20 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes

Same goes for the other units (kibibytes, gibibytes, tebibytes, etc.).

See:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte