Lee, when you and some of your geek friends talk it’s hard for a slurp the syrup guy like me to know what you are talking about, hard links, forks, and a USB RUST-Based drive…
To further my non existent education can you elaborate on these three subjects, I sure know what a USB drive is but one with Rust, I need to learn. John > On May 7, 2018, at 10:05 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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, > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=gT_w8Fg5tm6lXwGQQ0HYQzHpBpzy9hSIRJEi9KJQ9qk&s=bDQfwfkhwcrzvQbKGCt-4rva5DQ9KxXL0pK_oPuT-Rg&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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