Re: APFS , a second look

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: APFS , a second look
Date	2017-04-09 18:36 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnoekvvq.1o7k.g.kreme@snow.local> (permalink)
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In message <58e9b85f$0$13183$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.com> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> With hindsight I am watching the WWDC presentation on Apple File System
> once again.

> Some of the stime that comes out on second watch:

> -Will be deployed from Apple Watch to the MacPro.

We all got that the first time. It was discussed here at the time.

> -HFS+ was limited to single thread for updates of B-trees, requiring
> locks and process wait for acquisition of lock. (OK on single processor
> systems, not so much on multi core ones.

Yes, we know that too.

> partitioning very different:

Not really, this is how CoreStorage has always worked.

> Yosemite and earlier will not recognize  APFS. (this implies that El
> Capitan will get update to support it).

For values of "implies" that mean Apple specifically said 10.11 would
get APFS support, it just won't be able to BOOT it.

-- 
Don't just *do* something: *sit* there!

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  Re: APFS , a second look Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-09 18:36 +0000

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