“Asif” is a fun name for a disk image format. It’s as-if it was a real disk. ;)
macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
3rd party supporting a file system would be one of the last things on a list of all software I’d ever want a 3rd party writing instead of the OS maker. Nightmare to evaluate the options, pure stress testing the options, difficult to know if it didn’t mess something up.
> 3rd party supporting a file system would be one of the last things on a list of all software I’d ever want a 3rd party writing instead of the OS maker. Given how many people use FUSE, Paragon NTFS for Mac, and similar tools, you're hardly totally representative.
Do many people use macFUSE? I thought ever since the license change it's really dropped off.
Re: macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format
#93“Asif” is a fun name for a disk image format. It’s as-if it was a real disk. ;)
Andor is a funny name for a tv show
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If you're going to be this superstitious, then you might as well lean into it and have a little fun. Better throw some herbs into the air and do a little jig for good measure. Personally, I'm going to accept that I won't be able to tell, because models are trained and prompted to appear human.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
correct. but it's also a management system so perhaps they only want a files system? no idea why more don't use zfs. especially after the auto expansion update earlier in the year.
IMO the main reason is that ~90% of ZFS benefits only show up with multiple drives which (unfortunately) is fairly uncommon outside of servers.
That's a major benefit of ZFS for sure, but I think being copy on write is another major benefit for single disk systems. ZFS is the only one I know of that has a full feature set and is supported on every major OS.
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#96Was this not already a solved problem? Why reinvent the wheel other than for vendor lockin?
It's a solved problem in the sense that Apple solved it more than a decade ago. (The sparsebundle format was introduced in Mac OS X Leopard from 2007. The sparseimage format was even older; I saw discussions of using it with Panther.) Apple solved it again but made it faster.
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#97Oh awesome! So it's more virtualisation-focused as opposed to HFS+ --> APFS migration?
Apples and oranges. This is a new disk image format. You can create an APFS _volume_ in the ASIF _image_.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this is actually a human struggle - I add Conclusions to my blog posts / dev guides because it feels awkward to just end with the last step. But it also always feels like I am just awkwardly restating things I just said. It's not a thesis, an article generally not complicated enough to need a re-synthesizing of main points at the end.
I have an unusual way of communicating sometimes that used to be quirky and fun. Now I simply get accused of being a bot. Before LLMs I never got accused of being a robot. I think the idea of good writing is soon going to morph with writing that doesn’t feel like it was made with AI.
It drives me crazy that em-dashes are supposedly a smell for AI now. The em-dash is a great and underused bit of punctuation.
I am just glad I am not in college dealing with all the AI and faulty AI detection crap happening. Ridiculous false accusations of plagiarism were already awful enough before this.
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#99I have a meta question not directly related to the article but more about HN itself. I posted this exact link 9h before this submission was posted[1]. How is it possible that there is a new entry for the submission given the link is the same? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=eclecticlight.co
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Re: macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format
#100What blew my mind recently was that I could store an APFS sparsebundle on a NAS drive, then mount it over NFS and use it as a plain old APFS volume. Despite the filesystem layering, it works pretty much like a local volume, albeit with a bit of performance degradation. Seems preferable to something like iSCSI for using APFS with network storage.
Perhaps this new format would work even better?