On 10 Dec 2017, at 21:14 (-0500), Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
My suspicion is that the problem has to do with very large directories on APFS file systems
This would be shocking. One of the rationales for APFS existing is that the HFS foundation was played out for dealing with large directories efficiently. I haven't looked into the details (life is short...) but if APFS is *worse* than HFS{+,X} with large directories then Apple is in a worse state than I had thought...
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