by pembrook 10 hours ago
> [on windows 11] my network samba shares stay connected and mounted through restarts. I could never make this work reliably on macOS.
It’s wild to me that Apple has allowed SMB on MacOS to be so broken/slow and poorly implemented for so long. It’s been this way for over a DECADE.
I have friends who work at production studios who complain about network storage and MacOS all the time given any modern video workflow involves a NAS.
You would think a company that halos creative workers in all its ads would care about this. But they happily ignore since “SMB that works” is not a feature that will get much mainstream attention in a flashy keynote (that nobody watches anymore anyways).
They rewrote their own SMB handler because they didn’t want the Samba license. Which means they get none of the improvements from the Samba code.
I didn’t know.. that explains so much
> It’s wild to me that Apple has allowed SMB on MacOS to be so broken/slow…
Is 1100+ MB/sec read and write (single 10 GbE interface) slow?
it's wild to me that Apple has retained SMB as the default option on macos for over a decade. There are plenty of faster/more secure protocols that are still widely recognized, yet they're still encouraging use of a protocol that could expose user data without so much as an Apple-y bother dialog about the consequences