Apple Responds to my Bug Report

It was really cool today, when my Google notifier informed me I had mail from the bug report people over at Apple. You may remember an older post of mine where I describe a potential bug with Apple's Time Machine system. Here's what they had to say:

Basically, Apple wants to keep the way it works because of the way Time Machine works to begin with. Consider this: the Time Machine backup is not an actual file system, rather an abstracted storage container, wherein bits of data are stored and referenced. As such, the data is stored (more or less) in one location, and simply referenced by future back-ups. Changing permissions on a particular reference would ultimately end up changing the past, and that's bad (think hard links).

This is all fine-and-dandy, and I completely understand where they're coming from, but I still think it would be cool to develop the low-level granularity into the next release of Time Machine and OS X. It would awesome to have ridiculously efficient file back-up. But then again, how many geeks out there are suffering from my issues? I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority on this one ;).