Apple file system. Designed for solid state storage devices. Used on MacOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS.
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What allocation strategy does Mac OS use (APFS)?
In class, we learnt about the different allocation strategies, namely First - available, Next - available, and Best - available. I was wondering what does Mac OS use? Does it use a combination of these allocation strategies to leverage its…
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rsync - same size, content, owner, group, permissions, time - yet it wants to copy
rsync - same size, content, owner, group, permissions, time - yet it wants to copy
Using macOS Mojave. Using the default filesystem in the source dir (apfs per df?), FAT32 in the dest dir (msdos per df).
Run out of ideas.
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How does MacOS utilize both APFS and the native UNIX (Darwin) file system?
I am sure everyone here knows that Mac OS made the transition to its own, native filesystem, dubbed "APFS", around the release of iOS 10.
However, it is also commonly known that behind the scenes Darwin (UNIX) is employed for standard libraries,…
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Creating installers for my products
my team develops several products for both Windows and Mac. Until now we used Vise-x for creating installers for Mac (and install shield for windows), for some reason searching (using Vise-x) on the APFS hangs.
Due to that reason we want to replace…
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