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APFS in Detail: Conclusions

This series of posts covers APFS, Apple’s new filesystem announced at WWDC 2016. See the first post for the table of contents. Summing Up I’m not sure Apple absolutely had to replace HFS+, but likely they had passed an inflection point where continuing to maintain and evolve the 30+ year old software was more expensive than building [...]





Posted on June 19, 2016 at 7:37 pm by ahl · Permalink · 37 Comments
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APFS in Detail: Data Integrity

This series of posts covers APFS, Apple’s new filesystem announced at WWDC 2016. See the first post for the table of contents. Data Integrity Arguably the most important job of a file system is preserving data integrity. Here’s my data, don’t lose it, don’t change it. If file systems could be trusted absolutely then the “only” reason [...]





Posted on June 19, 2016 at 7:37 pm by ahl · Permalink · 41 Comments
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APFS in Detail: Performance

This series of posts covers APFS, Apple’s new filesystem announced at WWDC 2016. See the first post for the table of contents. Performance APFS claims to be optimized for flash. Flash memory (NAND) is the stuff in your speedy SSD. Apple changed the computing industry when it put flash into the iPod and iPhone, volumes for which [...]





Posted on June 19, 2016 at 7:36 pm by ahl · Permalink · 11 Comments
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APFS in Detail: Space Efficiency and Clones

This series of posts covers APFS, Apple’s new filesystem announced at WWDC 2016. See the first post for the table of contents. Space Efficiency A modern trend in file systems has been to store data more efficiently to effectively increase the size of your device. Common approaches include compression (which, as noted above, is very very likely [...]





Posted on June 19, 2016 at 7:35 pm by ahl · Permalink · 24 Comments
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APFS in Detail: Encryption, Snapshots, and Backup

This series of posts covers APFS, Apple’s new filesystem announced at WWDC 2016. See the first post for the table of contents. Encryption Encryption is clearly a core feature of APFS. This comes from diverse requirements from the various devices, for example multiple keys within file systems on the iPhone or per-user keys on laptops. I heard [...]





Posted on June 19, 2016 at 7:34 pm by ahl · Permalink · 6 Comments
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APFS in Detail: Overview

Apple announced a new file system that will make its way into all of its OS variants (macOS, tvOS, iOS, watchOS) in the coming years. Media coverage to this point has been mostly breathless elongations of Apple’s developer documentation. With a dearth of detail I decided to attend the presentation and Q&A with the APFS [...]





Posted on June 19, 2016 at 7:29 pm by ahl · Permalink · 42 Comments
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ZFS: Apple’s New Filesystem That Wasn’t

Prologue (2006) I attended my first WWDC in 2006 to participate in Apple’s launch of their DTrace port to the next version of Mac OS X (Leopard). Apple completed all but the fiddliest finishing touches without help from the DTrace team. Even when they did meet with us we had no idea that they were mere [...]





Posted on June 15, 2016 at 1:30 pm by ahl · Permalink · 36 Comments
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