On May 7, 2018, at 8:59 AM, Bill Rising <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I did see that (it's in one of the miserably-obscured-by-proofpoint urls), > but Apple contradicts themselves here [1], where a shared folder can be used > as a target aka destination, but "The folder must be located on an Apple File > System (APFS) volume and shared using the SMB protocol.". This is all very > strange. I think that help file by Apple is mistaken. Time Machine uses hard links to keep its imaging up to date. APFS does not (yet??) support hard links, which seems weird for a modern Unix file system. It does support forking, which is how I expect them to eventually do an upgrade to Time Machine. Forking does not work well on spinners. It makes me worry what else isn’t fully cooked with APFS on spinners. Also, I tried it on a USB rust-based drive. It was really slow compared to HFS+. APFS is apparently designed only for solid state drives, or spinny drives are still a work in progress. (I suspect the former.) L^2 --- Lee Larson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there. — Yogi Berra,
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