• @[email protected]
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    84 months ago

    Not sure if it’s gotten better in the last few years, but it’s also incredibly slow. Like orders of magnitude slower than ext3 or HFS.

    • @QuarterSwede
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      44 months ago

      I’ve never thought of APFS as slow. Didn’t realize it was.

      • Prison Mike
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        14 months ago

        Yeah that was kind of a weird take, I’ve never felt it being slow nor heard it is from anywhere else.

    • Blaster M
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      24 months ago

      If you’re running it thru the FUSE driver perhaps…proprietary ntfs drivers absolutely rip

      Also make sure last access time is turned off, that is a nice auditing feature for opsec, but it slows things down for the normal user. It should be off by default above 256GB drive sizes.

        • Blaster M
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          24 months ago

          last access time

          • @[email protected]
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            14 months ago

            There’s a good chance that’s what our issue was. It really struggled with a Java monolith project. Compiling was slow, but Mercurial was painfully slow on NTFS while ext4 was blazing fast.

            Been on Macs at work for a few years and don’t plan on going back, but wish I knew this back then!