Originally Posted By: drakino

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What's sad, however, is that I don't think Apple really gives a shit about instant snapshots and other such things. Those are things you really want on file servers, which Apple once sold but doesn't sell any more.

From a purely outside view of watching Apple carefully, they likely has some plan to improve the filesystem on OS X/iOS/tvOS/WatchOS within a few more years. I'm not sure if it would go to ZFS/ZFS like directly. A variant worked into the growing CoreStorage efforts that lacks some ZFS benefits while also cutting way down on overhead would be my guess currently. They do still see a number of support cases and issues due to flaws in HFS+ in all their consumer products.


Absolutely. TimeMachine would greatly benefit from instant snapshots, as that it basically what it currently has to implement at the moment on top of HFS+ in a horribly hacky way.

Also all the iOS devices would greatly benefit from it, what better way to deal with upgrades in a rollbackable-if-it-goes-wrong way.
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