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You can turn macOS into Windows 3.1 reading a floppy by mounting an SMB share with a ton of small files and running an rclone sync between it and an external dr
by foobiekr 5y ago
You can turn macOS into Windows 3.1 reading a floppy by mounting an SMB share with a ton of small files and running an rclone sync between it and an external drive that has previously completed a sync. The stat() operations make the kernel go crazy. It’s the most appalling thing I’ve seen and has been broken like this since Catalina where it arrived as a massive performance regression.
- saagarjha 5y agoYou don’t even need networked storage for that, just attach a slow spiny disk and it’ll grind every app accessing the filesystem (even if those files are on a super fast internal SSD!) to a halt at random points.