I am thankful for all of the answers and opinions that have been posted. I'm trying to get more information and to understand and thus to make the best decision. I'm not tech savvy enough to know the answers to these questions. What is Apple waiting for?" Would this be another reason to wait before upgrading? What about ApMaX's comment above: "Additionally, we are also waiting for Apple Time Machine 2 (or whatever called) with full APFS support, including snapshots. I do, however, also have external backup disks, which are regular HDs, and I either use the Flash Drive, or I run DW from the SSD.ĭW recommends rebuilding the disk catalog monthly, which I've been dong to the SSD. I normally run the current version of DW (5) on a Flash Drive, booted from the Flash Drive, in order to work on the SSD. Are you saying that an SSD with High Sierra on it could be successfully repaired by Apple's own Disk Utility without the need of DiskWarrior?īy "if it has decent garbage collection," do you mean, again, that High Sierra is sophisticated enough to take care of the troubles DiskWarrior previously could fix? DiskWarrior has saved our disks many times, including prevention and Time Machine catastrophic corruptions. Otherwise, we will not update from Sierra to newer macOS versions, since that is a deal breaker issue. Hopefully, Apple will release such information soon. To date there is no available technical information about APFS and this is the motivation for this article.Īs they state, "To date there is no available technical information about APFS and this is the motivation for this article". APFS is a file system developed from first principles and will, in 2017, become the new file system for Apple devices. All of these present challenges for file systems. Their expertise is in providing powerful, useful, and safe utilities that enhance the Mac OS user experience while maintaining the ease-of-use that Macintosh owners expect. Much has happened in the evolution of storage technologies, the capacity and speed of devices has increased and Solid State Drives (SSD) are replacing traditional drives. Alsoft has been writing software for Mac OS computers since 1984. For instance HFS and HFS+ have been the file systems of choice in Apple devices for over 30 years. Some file systems are more tightly connected to a specific Operating System (OS). So much, that APFS has been reverse-engineered and published in prestigious scientific journal:ĭigital Investigation - Volume 22, September 2017, Pages 107-132įile systems have always played a vital role in digital forensics and during the past 30–40 years many of these have been developed to suit different needs. The current situation of lack of information about APFS from Apple is described here: Micromat has done some progress on such direction, because they have access to part of such APFS specifications, since they have a long history of business relationship with Apple to develop TechTool Deluxe (for AppleCare customers only). VikingOSX, all three major developers of Mac utilities to rebuild disk directory indicate that the lack of such essential feature for APFS in their utilities is becasue Apple has not yet released APFS specifications:
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