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The APFS switchover wrecked a lot of people's drives, and AFPS is slower than the filesystem it replaced. I wouldn't hold it up as an example of Apple software
by ghostcluster 9y ago
The APFS switchover wrecked a lot of people's drives, and AFPS is slower than the filesystem it replaced. I wouldn't hold it up as an example of Apple software initiatives that are shipped fully-baked.
- magnetic 9y agoDo you have source for that? I can't find any reports of widespread problems. The speed wasn't the part I was impressed with, it was the ability to do in place upgrade of a filesystem on millions of devices without any massive amounts of problems. I find that to be a tour de force. While I'd prefer new filesystems to be faster than older ones, I understand that improvements don't always come in the speed dimension: it can also come in the integrity/data loss one. You can run your filesystem without write ordering, cache enabled, and no-op for SYNC/FLUSH, and it will be very fast, but you will risk data loss. It seems reasonable to me to trade speed for integrity.