I’ve got a WD drive I’m using for Time Machine. I had to halt TM before doing an erase and reformat. TM uses fseventsd so that might be what you see. Anyway with TM not running Disk Utility happily reformatted the WD drive as APFS.
I can confirm that with APFS TM runs much faster than with HFS+ Regards, Tony Sent from my iPad > On 16 Nov 2020, at 22:33, itsagroup via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > Big Sur allows Time Machine to backup to an APFS formatted drive. Apart from > just being a modern and robust filing system, it’s much faster to perform TM > backups than HFS+ according to what I’ve seen. I planned to reformat my WD > Passport drive using Disk Utility for speed and reliability improvements. > > The problem is that the format fails because fseventsd is using the drive. I > could kill it in Activity Monitor I suppose but I don’t know if that’s wise … > > Any thoughts, or should I just carry on using HFS+? > > I’ve downloaded the latest WD Utility app which has an erase option but it > still only offers HFS+J. > > Cheers, > > Stephen > > > > "My nephew asked me what a Conservative is, so I stole half his toys and gave > them to the rich family next door." ~ unknown > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/78DDD71F-A986-48DA-A34A-44341EDF9E12%40icloud.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/9C2AA36B-09B6-4C53-81FD-F7B9F9CA231E%40me.com.
