Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: New file system ? Date: 4 Mar 2017 14:29:09 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <58ba760d$0$55211$b1db1813$15bdbe48@news.astraweb.com> <1n2dsh0.v7mdb3v7zzldN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> X-Trace: individual.net AkIOYSB3rdJpxtbpyuZp6AAqNz1ihs7TxJ3rWVX4J3+RXZkM1K Cancel-Lock: sha1:01o8vQwMj38tGkwMNfzu9TtruEc= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:101780 On 2017-03-04, David Empson wrote: > JF Mezei wrote: > >> A year or two or three ago, during a WWDC conference, > > Try less than a year ago, at WWDC 2016. He's claimed to have watched those in the past... >> Apple announced a new file system, which would first be for non-system >> disk starting with (IIRC El Capitan or Yosemite) and then rolling out for >> system disk. > > This Google search will help you educate yourself further. > > https://www.google.com/search?q=site:apple.com+apfs > > From the developer introduction (first link): > > "A Developer Preview of Apple File System is available in macOS Sierra. > Apple plans to release Apple File System as a bootable file system in > 2017." > > That suggests the next major version of macOS is a likely candidate for > a public release of feature complete APFS (with developer and public > betas up to three months prior to that), but it leaves open the > possibility that Sierra updates before then could include significant > APFS enhancements, even if it doesn't get as far as booting from APFS. > > Ars Technica have run several articles about APFS, including > experimenting with it. > > https://arstechnica.com/search/?ie=UTF-8&q=apfs Ugh... So much *reading*! JF will never get through all of this! Can't you just give him a Matrix-style implant of all of this information so we don't have to transcribe it for him when he inevitably spews ignorant misinformation about it?! Please? Think of the people!! -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR