Comment by ThePowerOfFuet

1 year ago

Was this not already a solved problem? Why reinvent the wheel other than for vendor lockin?

It's a solved problem in the sense that Apple solved it more than a decade ago. (The sparsebundle format was introduced in Mac OS X Leopard from 2007. The sparseimage format was even older; I saw discussions of using it with Panther.) Apple solved it again but made it faster.