“Among the tidbits Apple revealed to its developer audience at the recently completed Worldwide Developers Conference was a new file system for the whole range of its products,” Michael E. Cohen writes for TidBiTS.
“Dubbed “APFS” (an acronym that Apple doesn’t completely spell out even in its developer documentation), the file system is meant to replace HFS+, the file system that in turn replaced 1985’s HFS (Hierarchical File System) in 1998,” Cohen writes. “(HFS+ has received numerous updates since 1998, so don’t get the impression that it’s completely obsolete.) A developer preview of APFS is baked into the forthcoming macOS Sierra and Apple says APFS will become the default file system in all of its operating systems — macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS — by late 2017.”
“Changing the default file system for an operating system is a big deal, since the file system is responsible for keeping track of all of the data on the device,” Cohen writes. “But what does such a change mean for users?”
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Apple discontinues ZFS project, turns attention to own next-gen file system – October 24, 2009
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