[flounder3]

I’m a backer and can’t wait to receive the 8TB upgrade!

I had to buy an off the shelf M1 Studio due to a hardware failure, so I couldn’t wait for the lead time for one with more RAM and storage. It has been borderline unusable due to so many things requiring local storage — can’t even symlink to an external NVMe. (Many apps, but also Backblaze metadata and iMessage attachments)

[coolspot]

You can’t symlink, but you can hardlink. I do that for iPhone backups.

[jagged-chisel]

Does APFS support hard links across volumes? I don’t think I’ve heard of any other file system doing that.

[coolspot]

I am referring to “mount -bind” which may not be exactly a hardlink. I don’t think FS support is needed for bind mounts.