“Apple is planning to share news on APFS support for Fusion Drives ‘very soon,’ Apple software engineering chief Craig Federighi told MacRumors reader Jonathan in an email [Tuesday] afternoon,” Juli Clover reports for MacRumors.
“With the launch of macOS High Sierra, Apple introduced a new Apple File System for Macs that have all-flash built-in storage,” Clover reports. “At the time macOS High Sierra was introduced, Apple said that the initial release of the software would not allow Fusion Drives to be converted to APFS, but confirmed APFS support would be coming at a later date.”
Clover reports, “Since then, iMac and Mac mini owners who have Fusion Drives have been eagerly waiting for Apple to implement support for the feature, but in update after update, no APFS support for Fusion Drives has materialized.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It’s in Apple’s jam-packed pipeline.
So, coming in macOS 10.14 this fall?
Or 10.15? Or “We just can’t?”
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Why can’t they just go with an existing file system instead of having to make their own? Couldn’t they have just gone with Btrfs?
Because it is Apple …… idiosyncratic
In Apple speak, that probably means “Just go buy a newer PC”
Thanks for my morning laugh Trondude.
I was thinking for Apple “very soon” these days means “just about a decade”.
You would think.. given the negative narrative out there, they would know better than to give responses like that.
To me, in a way, it reaffirms that they are kind of out of touch… or that things are kind of out of control .
“Very Soon”…… My Arss ( umm 🤔🤔.. where did i hear that before )
Another Apple clusterfsck. Courtesy of Tim Cook.
Not my comment, just repeating it here.
APFS, AirPlay 2, HomePod stereo, iMessages in iCloud, etc. Apple needs to find a way to either better utilize their engineering talent or bring on more talent quickly. Otherwise this WWDC is just going to be announcements of features announced last year and maybe released this year.
I’m going to assume that support for Apple’s Time Machine is no longer on their to-do list.
Still, good news for the Fusion Drive I have.
..when i bought my iMac Fusion drive was the latest and greatest only to become neglected later
I have not yet upgraded to latest OSX because of this issue.
So sloppy of Apple…
I can smell the dumpster burning…….
APFS for Fusion Drives will show up soon. Right after new MacPros.
I’m more interested in when Time Machine will support APFS, or whether Apple is going to abandonware Time Machine as they often do with their great products.