How exactly does processing files work on AFP shares?

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Published on 2012-11-10T22:31:42Z Indexed on 2012/11/10 23:02 UTC
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I recently made myself a NAS, and I’ve been wondering about how AFP shares work.

If I have a ZIP on the AFP share, and I use Finder to decompress the file, what will the process for decompressing this file be? Will it read the file into memory on my Mac, process it, and then write the results to the AFP share? I’ve been wondering because if I login via SSH to decompress, I seem to get faster results.

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