Comment by ChrisMarshallNY

1 year ago

Doesn’t sound particularly useful, if you aren’t setting up containers.

I use sparse disk images extensively as a tool to make certain directories require specific passwords. I simply create an encrypted sparse disk image and set a password on them. Seems like this will speed up my use case.

Unless they can migrate Time Machine to it. The performance improvements sound like they might be a real boon there.

If Apple would just ship bind mounts and FS/pid namespaces... or even just un-break chroot...