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> Note: What I describe below applies to APFS sparse disk images only — ordinary APFS volumes (e.g. your SSD startup disk) are not affected by this problem. While the underlying problem here is very serious, this is not likely to be a widespread problem, and will be most applicable to a small subset of backups.
APFS not having block or file-level checksums really seems like a big oversight to me. While the filesystem’s designers considered the hardware-level guarantees to be sufficient [1], this issue shows that there is an entire class of problems that they have not considered. Disk images and loopback-mounted filesystems or even disk-level cloning introduce additional layers of complexity where a filesystem can be silentl…
Apple HFS+ didn't have file data checksums either. The default filesystem on most Linux distributions, ext4 doesn't, it just stores checksums of the file metadata, not the file data. Same story with Windows NTFS filesystem. Microsofts newer ReFS filesystem has file data checksums disabled by default. So it seems like a tradeoff that most of the major operating system are making. Most likely related to performance. Ed…
[0] http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2016-June/50...
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I had to make room on my MBP SSD to install windows through bootcamp and bashed my head against a wall on the same issue. It took me half an hour to find the reason why so much of my hard drive wasn't available despite me having deleted almost all third party apps and personal data on my macOS partition. Time Machine does 'local backups' and there is NOWHERE in the user interface that fully explains the space they oc…
Yes it’s a really poor design decision. They could have at least added “local time machine backups” color to Disk Utility, or added a way to turn them off. Agreed re: snappiness of other OS. Ubuntu flies on my 2013 MBP.
[0] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/solution-reclaim-storag...
Yet another reason to stick with El Capitan.
I really want to- but I'm locked out of Xcode 9 if I linger. If only I can run it through some sort of virtualization
Yes, fairly limited impact, but still. Data loss is fucking important. We aren't talking about an occasional stutter when moving windows or a sound driver that sometimes needs a reboot to resume working. This is a major bug. I would really really like it if Apple would get their shit together so that people who actually rely on their computers to work correctly can upgrade at some point.
Or just stop using macOS. I wish I could give you my Debian Thinkpad for a week. Granted I've put some time into tweaking it because the sock gnome3 rounded matte shit is shit, but I bet you'd convert. The only issue is the screen aspect ratio Apple still wins there.
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refs (microsoft's new filesystem)'s deployment went along much better. i haven't heard of any major issues since it came out in windows server 2012.
ReFS was only ever made the default on new installs of Windows Server 2012. It never actually made it to production builds of Windows 8 or above so it's actually only installed on a fraction of the systems that are out there. That's not really a sufficient sampling size to say that this deployment went along much better. The APFS update was a much, much larger endeavor and, based only on public response, was nearly s…
1. i had a filevault related corruption issue, the disk was eating itself up thinking it was encrypting... don't have the apple discussion link at hand.
2. time machine hidden snapshot, "disk full" issues. it's a major pita for me that is not possible to turn off local snapshots.
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Apple HFS+ didn't have file data checksums either. The default filesystem on most Linux distributions, ext4 doesn't, it just stores checksums of the file metadata, not the file data. Same story with Windows NTFS filesystem. Microsofts newer ReFS filesystem has file data checksums disabled by default. So it seems like a tradeoff that most of the major operating system are making. Most likely related to performance. Ed…
Performance is only an issue if your disk can write faster than your CPU can hash. hammer2 changed its hash a couple of years ago because this started happening with newer NVMe drives[0], but before that disk writes weren't CPU-bound. [0] http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2016-June/50...
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200B in the bank and they couldn’t find a way to port it to other platforms? I think they could.
It’s not about not being able to port it; it’s not the right tool for the job. ZFS is a file system designed for servers; the Apple Watch, Apple TV and the iPhone and iPad aren’t servers.
A friend of mine lost a ton of data this week after mac os crashed and he restarted it. The only things he had done since getting the computer a week ago were: 1. update to high sierra 2. copy over files from old mac 3. record about 40gb of screen share data using quicktime (which is what he was doing when it crashed) He spent hours on the phone with apple, the tech said he had never seen anything like it and they we…
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Honestly, it's the first Mac OS release I'd actively recommend avoiding upgrading to. It offers essentially no benefits over the prior release, and a whole lot of downsides. (Security issues notwithstanding, High Sierra also drops compatibility for a lot of older software.)
Lion actively screwed up normal people's workflows with the botched "Save As" replacement. I still want an explanation of why they thought that was a good idea. We skipped that one after one of the admin assistants discovered the new joy. The whole California-series of OS has had a broken Finder. I see some fixes in High Sierra, but its still buggy as heck for large file moves and broken scripting. I'm hoping they ta…