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What blew my mind recently was that I could store an APFS sparsebundle on a NAS drive, then mount it over NFS and use it as a plain old APFS volume. Despite the
by archagon 1y ago
What blew my mind recently was that I could store an APFS sparsebundle on a NAS drive, then mount it over NFS and use it as a plain old APFS volume. Despite the filesystem layering, it works pretty much like a local volume, albeit with a bit of performance degradation. Seems preferable to something like iSCSI for using APFS with network storage.
Perhaps this new format would work even better?
- kccqzy 1y agoNot sure why that would blow your mind, but Apple's old Time Capsule basically mounted a sparsebundle over the network too. And yes I would also guess this new format would work better.
- archagon 1y agoMy experience with NFS file management has been less than stellar, so running a full, virtualized, and performant APFS volume on top of it feels like a bit of a magic trick.
- kccqzy 1y agoInteresting. My employer uses NFS extensively and issues are very rare, and such issues can always be traced to underlying network issues not NFS itself. It's a good choice if you have a good network.
- saagarjha 1y agoMy former employer used NFS and it would lock up a bunch of stuff whenever the network dropped for a bit. In fact a lot of their software had detection for this case so that you wouldn't think it was at fault for the issues.