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> The bigger question is why does Time Machine continue use a network file system for backups?

As opposed to what? When you need to be able to back up to a drive on your network?



Mounting a file system on a network share tightly couples the client to the server. It’s synchronous and it’s easy to leave the file system in an inconsistent state. Much more robust to build an asynchronous protocol with your own logic as rdbms do. You don’t see rdbms mounting remote file systems do you?



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