Support of APFS (new Apple File System)

[tomkoen]

Would be happy to see someday support of new Apple FS

Apple File System supports nearly all of the features of HFS+, and offers improvements over HFS+, including 64-bit inode numbers, 1 nanosecond timestamp granularity, an expansive block allocator, support for sparse files, and a crash protection scheme.

[LubosD]

Yep, thought the same yesterday. Do you happen to know if AFS will also be used in DMGs? I assume yes, but just to be sure.

[tomkoen]

Sorry for the late reply. Nope, still haven't met APFS in DMG

[tomkoen]

Ok, now it's easy to create DMG with APFS:

hdiutil create -volname myVolume -srcfolder ~/MyVolumeFolder -ov -fs apfs myVolume.dmg

From Apple FAQ: Q: Is APFS open source? A: An open source implementation is not available at this time. Apple plans to document and publish the APFS volume format specification.

[jack980517]

The DMGs in IPSWs (iOS firmware files) uses APFS since iOS 10.3.

[tomkoen]

Decoding the APFS file system

[tomkoen]

https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse

[zivkaspersky]

as a default if you create a DMG in latest version of hdutil it create a GPT partitioned disk with a APFS file system.

[TheRedXD]

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