Restore stalls for days scanning millions of small files
Restoring a snapshot with about 20 million small files spends days in a file-counting scan before any data is written
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 6 April 2026 · last reported 6 April 2026
What's going wrong
A user restoring about 1.5 terabytes made of nearly twenty million small files found the restore had run for almost four days without writing anything.
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