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Great article! Apple contrasts [space sharing] with the static allocation of disk space to support multiple HFS+ instances, which seems both specious and an un
by pohl 10y ago
Great article!
Apple contrasts [space sharing] with the static allocation of disk space to support multiple HFS+ instances, which seems both specious and an uncommon use case.
Really? I depend on this use case every year to safely test drive pre-release OS versions.
- lisnake 10y agoI'm curios, how do you use this feature to install different OS versions?
- pohl 10y agoMaybe I'm misreading the author, but I take "static allocation of disk space to support multiple HFS+ instances" as a fancy way to refer to multiple partitions on the same physical volume. (So, Yosemite on one, and a pre-release of El Capitan on the other.) Space sharing just promises to allow the same thing but without wasting space. This seems too obvious and important a use case to call "specious and an uncommon".
- thenewwazoo 10y agoI read it as non-sparse HFS+ disk images (dmg vs sparseimage)
- ahl 10y agoThat use of multiple partitions I think qualifies as uncommon which is not to suggest that it's not useful.
- stephencanon 10y agoExtremely commonly used by engineers within Apple, however =)