[dnanian]

Understood, Steve. We're looking into the case. I'm not sure ditto preserves the links if they go across "copy operations" (in other words, if in your example something in /usr is linked to something in /Applications, it likely won't have its link preserved).

It's a bit tough, because unlike a soft link a hard link can't be created until the target exists, and there's no real "target" as such since they're all really the same file.

In any case, we're looking at it. Thanks again.