A brief history of APFS (Apple File System) in honour of its fifth birthday

Re:A brief history of APFS (Apple File System) in honour of ... by sacnoradhq on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:22PM (#35350183)

Because change costs way more to than you think: maybe billions of dollars and impacting billions of users.

Creating 2 different systems carries risks: it has a learning curve, a support cost, and breaks everything that came before.

Perhaps, in a utopian green field, we redo a systems language, a portable systems API, and a common operating system with a compatibility layer to the old way on top.

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Re:A brief history of APFS (Apple File System) in honour of ... by eviks on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:18AM (#35352472)

Change has already partially happened since there is no one single filesystem with one behavior.

Not changing impacts many more users (all the future billions) and costs even more: the learning/support/etc. is all there, and it's harder to learn about a buggy system since you have more papercuts

Also, it doesn't break everything, we're not living in a dystopia

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Re:A brief history of APFS (Apple File System) in honour of ... by actionfromafar on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:59AM (#35354430)

This is all true. We should also fix global warming, it's the same kind of problem. Massive investments now or even more massive losses tomorrow.

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