Re: Sierra's Time Machine's backups slower?

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
Subject	Re: Sierra's Time Machine's backups slower?
Date	2017-04-28 11:19 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnog69gr.lhc.g.kreme@snow.local> (permalink)
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In message <5902365e$0$8033$b1db1813$2411a48f@news.astraweb.com> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 2017-04-27 07:49, Andre G. Isaak wrote:

>> Deleting a time-machine backup is considerably slower than deleting a 
>> comparably sized group of files, and I assume the reason for this is 
>> that the OS performs consistency checks when deleting multiply-linked 
>> folders.


> I view it differently:

Of course you do. I'm sure you'll share your complete lack of knowledge.

> Why does Time Machine need to delete ? to free space.

That's an astonishingly dumb question.

> Say File1.txt has remained unchanged for 6 months or 180 days/backups.
> So you have one copy of file1.txt with 180 directory entries pointing to it.

If only there were some way to tell how many links there were to a
file...

> So you have to loop through al backups (oldest to newest) deleting all
> files in each until you have enough free space. 

I'm sure that's how YOU would do it. It's not how anyone else would do
it.

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            Re: Sierra's Time Machine's backups slower? "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2017-04-27 05:49 -0600
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                Re: Sierra's Time Machine's backups slower? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-28 11:19 +0000
                Re: Sierra's Time Machine's backups slower? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-28 15:01 -0400
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