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Have been on it since beta 3 or something. This has been one of the more smooth transitions, no dev tools broken, and only few apps had some quirks that I filed

by Tehnix 9y ago

Have been on it since beta 3 or something. This has been one of the more smooth transitions, no dev tools broken, and only few apps had some quirks that I filed bug reports for, which are now fixed. The APFS change really isn't something you are likely to hit, heck you'd have to go out of your way to make it a problem. Deffo recommending it :) Speed ups are nice!

charlesdm 9y ago
Speed ups? Where are you seeing speed ups? I'm on a Macbook (last gen) and have been using High Sierra for the last month or so. Aside from my changed desktop background, I haven't actually spotted (any / many?) changes.
- Tehnix 9y ago
  General animation things because of Metal 2. APFS is awesome when copy pasting (instant), Safari's faster, and general performance increase (subjective of course). There are tons of small changes here and there!
  - majewsky 9y ago
    What does a filesystem have to do with copy-pasting?
    - Ivoah 9y ago
      I think he meant copy-pasting files.
      - wlesieutre 9y ago
        Yes, according to the Apple page: >Responsive. Designed to make common tasks like duplicating a file and finding the size of a folder’s contents happen instantly.
        Tehnix 9y ago
        Yup, which is pretty neat. Before you'd have to wait for the little Finder window to show up, calculate time remaining and then do the job. Now it's instant when copy-pasting files around :)
archagon 9y ago
Do you know if the APFS conversion affects Bootcamp at all?
- Tehnix 9y ago
  It doesn't, it only touches the drive you perform it on (meaning your Mac HD). I literally did a fresh install yesterday with an existing bootcamp partition, and no problems. One thing though, if you relied on some thing like Paragon or whatever to read your HFS drive, that will obviously not work anymore (not personally a problem, but could be a deal breaker for some).
- wila 9y ago
  If you're using VMware Fusion then your Bootcamp partition currently appears to be not accessible. So it looks like that the conversion does confuse VMware Fusion at the moment. Not aware of any other issues with Bootcamp.

by Tehnix 9y ago

charlesdm 9y ago

Speed ups? Where are you seeing speed ups? I'm on a Macbook (last gen) and have been using High Sierra for the last month or so. Aside from my changed desktop background, I haven't actually spotted (any / many?) changes.

Tehnix 9y ago
General animation things because of Metal 2. APFS is awesome when copy pasting (instant), Safari's faster, and general performance increase (subjective of course). There are tons of small changes here and there!
- majewsky 9y ago
  What does a filesystem have to do with copy-pasting?
  - Ivoah 9y ago
    I think he meant copy-pasting files.
    - wlesieutre 9y ago
      Yes, according to the Apple page: >Responsive. Designed to make common tasks like duplicating a file and finding the size of a folder’s contents happen instantly.
      - Tehnix 9y ago
        Yup, which is pretty neat. Before you'd have to wait for the little Finder window to show up, calculate time remaining and then do the job. Now it's instant when copy-pasting files around :)

archagon 9y ago

Do you know if the APFS conversion affects Bootcamp at all?

Tehnix 9y ago
It doesn't, it only touches the drive you perform it on (meaning your Mac HD). I literally did a fresh install yesterday with an existing bootcamp partition, and no problems. One thing though, if you relied on some thing like Paragon or whatever to read your HFS drive, that will obviously not work anymore (not personally a problem, but could be a deal breaker for some).
wila 9y ago
If you're using VMware Fusion then your Bootcamp partition currently appears to be not accessible. So it looks like that the conversion does confuse VMware Fusion at the moment. Not aware of any other issues with Bootcamp.