APFS is coming soon: iOS 10.3 will automatically upgrade your filesystem

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/01/ios-10-3-will-be-apples-first-update-to-convert-storage-to-apfs/

by OberstKrueger • 9 years ago

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gigatexal2• 9 years ago

I wish they had just forked/built onto ZFS and used any desktop facing improvements from openZFS and say TrueOS but in any case HFS+ was due for an upgrade a long time ago.

stephencanon• 9 years ago

What ZFS features do you want that APFS won't/can't provide? Is there some other reason you want ZFS instead?

ripa• 9 years ago

On a very high level ZFS main thing compared to APFS is currently data integrity features such as checksums of the data to detect bit rot (silent corruption) and the ability to automatically heal the data (with enough redundancy in place).

It would be good to at least have the checksum capability in place to make one aware of bit rot silently destroying data. Hopefully there has been some improvements to the capabilities since the announcement last year.

theluketaylor• 9 years ago

The data integrity features of apfs are fairly weak compared to zfs. zfs also does much more interesting things with multidisk management, though those features are less critical on the desktop

gigatexal2• 9 years ago

ZFS's killer feature: checksums

mveety2• 9 years ago

APFS can't provide the stability that ZFS does because it hasn't been beaten on for long enough yet. I have a hard time trusting a new filesystem to store anything remotely important until its been beaten on long enough to find many of the nasty pathologies. Features don't matter as much as stability. Keeping your data safe is the #1 thing a filesystem needs to do.

Also, based on how the quality of the OS has been in the last few versions, I'm not sure I entirely want to trust brand new software from apple right now. In my opinion, they don't take bugs seriously enough, and a filesystem is a hell of a lot more complicated and important than a music player, web browser, or email client.

hobarrera• 9 years ago

Aside from what other said: compatibility with others OSs. But that's probably not very high on Apple's agenda (at least not for an FS).

APFS is coming soon: iOS 10.3 will automatically upgrade your filesystem

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