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macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format

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Re: macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format

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Post by e12e » Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 1:48 PM UTC

adgjlsfhk1 wrote: post #83

mtillman wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

correct. but it's also a management system so perhaps they only want a files system? no idea why more don't use zfs. especially after the auto expansion update earlier in the year.

IMO the main reason is that ~90% of ZFS benefits only show up with multiple drives which (unfortunately) is fairly uncommon outside of servers.

Cross platform encryption, backup/restore (zfs send/receive), large file support are all great reasons to use zfs.

Re: macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format

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Post by saagarjha » Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 9:07 AM UTC

kccqzy wrote: post #131

archagon wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My 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.

Interesting. 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.

My 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.

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