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Will new APFS mean a beast of an upgrade as it changes my fs?

• Longhanks 9y ago
  Considering it currently probably is HFS+, yes. Absolutely.
• deedubaya 9y ago
  If you're on iOS 10.3, you've already been upgraded from HFS+ to APFS. I believe this was done for all iOS users without much notice. https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/01/ios-10-3-will-be-apples-first-update-to-convert-storage-to-apfs/ https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/01/ios-10-3-will-be-apple... So to answer your question, maybe not so beastly.
  • pvg 9y ago
    This is about the macOS update. High Sierra is the first macOS release with APFS as default
    • deedubaya 9y ago
      Yes, I was just showing as an example of how seamlessly they were able to upgrade iOS devices to APFS.
      • pvg 9y ago
        It's a far more constrained (and typically, more frequently backed up) environment. I don't think it really answers the question of 'how is it going to work out on macOS'.
        • masklinn 9y ago
          Of course not, but it shows that transparent in-place update should be possible.
• orbitur 9y ago
  iOS 10.3 was a hell of a test-run for case-sensitive filesystems. On the Mac side, we've got potential case-insensitivity, so I believe the case-insensitive version of APFS is the upgrade to keep an eye on.
  • tehabe 9y ago
    HFS+ was already case-sensitive on iOS.
    • orbitur 9y ago
      Right, and case-insensitive is a harder problem to tackle.
• jtth 9y ago
  It took about 45 minutes on my 2012 MacBook Pro with 256GB SSD.