[geeks] Mac World announcements...

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jan 16, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Mark wrote:

> On 16 Jan 2008, at 04:51, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> Also, doesn't the current airport base station allow you to add a
>> USB 2.0 HD? At $179 for
>> the airport base and $120 for the 500 Gig HD is reasonable, but it
>> won't
>> displace an existing airport extreme base station (IMHO)...
>
> The point is that network drives do not work in 10.5 unless you have a
> OS X Server with a Time Machine server online (I think??).

I've never heard of nor have I see a TM server on my machine.

TM is a front-end on the ancient UNIX trick of hard-link mirrors.

Therefore, it seems the only thing you need in a remote drive is  
support for hard links.

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