Apple's APFS Migration: A Feat of Engineering

Re:Apple's APFS Migration: A Feat of Engineering by karurosu on Monday April 15, 2024 @04:37PM (#40045257)

This seems like goal post moving. The question was if the migration was complicated, the answer is yes. Whether or not APFS is revolutionary or the best option is not the discussion. The core fact is that Apple needed to move away from HFS+ and they decided to move to their own FS, which brought in a bunch of changes that are standard in other OSs.

And they did it in a smooth and fairly uneventful way, so that's remarkable.

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Re:Apple's APFS Migration: A Feat of Engineering by lxgr on Monday April 15, 2024 @05:42PM (#40045978)

No smartphone these days gives you access at the mass storage level anymore (because it causes issues for concurrent access from the phone and computer, because there's often encryption etc.), so the underlying file system in this scenario is completely irrelevant and has no bearing on you being able to access the phone's data on Linux.

Android uses MTP or PTP (can't remember which) for that type of access, while iOS uses something proprietary, but there's a Linux implementation that worked reasonably well for me last time I had a Linux laptop: https://libimobiledevice.org/

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