[Fink-users] findutils and Time Machine, two great tastes that don't go great together

[Douglas A. <dar...@gm...>]

I'm not sure where the right place to report fink package bugs is, so I'll
do so here:

The "findutils" package adds an anacron job that runs a "find" over all your
filesystems in the wee hours of the morning in order to build the database
for "locate". Unfortunately, if you happen to have a Time Machine disk
mounted, it seems that the "find" job will likely crash your Mac.

I believe the reason for this is that Time Machine makes use of an
interesting HFS+ capability wherein you can make hard links to directories.
I'm guessing that Time Machine's extensive use of this feature causes "find"
to rampantly eat up some sort of system resource, which when exhausted
causes the system to crash.

|>ouglas