Comment by archagon
1 year 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?
Not 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.
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.
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