Apple File System

Re:Apple File System by pducks32 on Monday June 13, 2016 @04:47PM (#11897482)

I read the link and have a pretty good understanding about how computers and file systems work but can someone "explain like I'm a decently intelligent programmer" what is different about this file system? Thanks you.

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Re:Apple File System by Eric_WVGG on Monday June 13, 2016 @05:50PM (#11898008)

This bit from 2012 by John Siracusa outlines everything “wrong” with the old file system, HFS+, and doubles as a sort of guide to what this new file system fixes.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/12/

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Re:Apple File System by cpr on Monday June 13, 2016 @05:08PM (#11897665)

They simply started from scratch with an aim to

* best support modern hardware technologies,

* start from the state of the art in file systems (like ZFS and btrfs, old as they may be), and also

* emphasize security.

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Re:Apple File System by astrodust on Monday June 13, 2016 @10:46PM (#11899425)

Sounds a lot like what Apple did with Swift.

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Re:Apple File System by josteink on Monday June 13, 2016 @05:25PM (#11897797)

It's apple reinventing the zfs and btrfs wheels. Which are already mature, useable and open source.

Google them and see what they do well, and you might get some ideas.

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Re:Apple File System by tracewpearson on Monday June 13, 2016 @06:01PM (#11898085)

Both filesystems have copyleft licenses so that may factor into Apples decision.

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