Apple File System (English Wikipedia)

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"A ZFS developer's analysis of the good and bad in Apple's new APFS file system". Ars Technica. June 26, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2025. Side note: Finder copy creates space-efficient clones, but cp from the command line does not.
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Leventhal, Adam H. (June 26, 2016). "A ZFS developer's analysis of the good and bad in Apple's new APFS file system". Ars Technica. APFS right now is incompatible with Time Machine due to the lack of directory hard links, a fairly disgusting implementation that likely contributes to Time Machine's questionable reliability.
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bombich.com

"An analysis of APFS enumeration performance on rotational hard drives". Carbon Copy Cloner. Retrieved January 8, 2020.

derflounder.wordpress.com

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doi.org

Hansen, K.H.; Toolan, F. (September 21, 2017). "Decoding the APFS file system". Digital Investigation. 22: 107–132. doi:10.1016/j.diin.2017.07.003. ISSN 1742-2876.

dtrace.org

Adam Leventhal (June 19, 2016). "APFS in Detail: Data Integrity". Archived from the original on June 21, 2016.
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eclecticlight.co

"APFS changes in Big Sur". June 29, 2020. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
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fedoraproject.org

packages.fedoraproject.org

"apfs-fuse - Fedora Packages". packages.fedoraproject.org. Retrieved October 20, 2022.

github.com

Bertin, René. "Compression and APFS". Github. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
"[dedup] Use APFS clone (CoW) on macOS · Issue #219 · pkolaczk/fclones". GitHub. August 10, 2023. Retrieved February 17, 2025.
"jakepetroules/Filesystem". GitHub. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
"Paragon Software Group Releases Free Paragon APFS SDK Community Edition for Software Developers, OEMs, Forensic Experts". Paragon Software Group. GitHub
"libyal/libfsapfs". GitHub. November 7, 2019. Library and tools to access the Apple File System (APFS)
Ross, Alistair (February 23, 2019). "How to mount macOS APFS disk volumes in Linux". The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide. (Github)
"linux-apfs/linux-apfs-rw: APFS module for linux, with experimental write support". GitHub. APFS for Linux. February 4, 2022.
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howtogeek.com

"How to Format a Drive With the APFS File System on macOS Sierra". Archived from the original on October 26, 2016. Retrieved October 26, 2016.

joe.co.uk

Alan Loughnane (April 2017). "Updating your iPhone will give you one major benefit". joe.co.uk. Archived from the original on May 20, 2017.

larryjordan.com

"APFS Is Not Yet Ready for Traditional Hard Drives". Larry Jordan. December 3, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2025.

linuxnewbieguide.org

Ross, Alistair (February 23, 2019). "How to mount macOS APFS disk volumes in Linux". The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide. (Github)

mac4n6.com

"Uh Oh! Unified Logs in High Sierra (10.13) Show Plaintext Password for APFS Encrypted External Volumes via Disk Utility.app". mac4n6. March 21, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2019.

macrumors.com

Clover, Juli (March 27, 2017). "Apple Releases iOS 10.3 With Find My AirPods, APFS, App Store Review Tweaks and More". MacRumors. Archived from the original on March 27, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2017.

macsales.com

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Tim, OWC (November 29, 2017). "Using APFS On HDDs ... And Why You Might Not Want To". Rocket Yard. Retrieved February 17, 2025.

mjtsai.com

Tsai, Michael J. "Michael Tsai - Blog - APFS's "Bag of Bytes" Filenames".

paragon-software.com

"Paragon Software Group Releases Free Paragon APFS SDK Community Edition for Software Developers, OEMs, Forensic Experts". Paragon Software Group. GitHub
"APFS for Windows | Paragon Software". Paragon Software Group. Retrieved January 29, 2024.

pkgs.org

rhel.pkgs.org

"apfs-fuse-20200928-1.el9.x86_64.rpm". rhel.pkgs.org.

stackexchange.com

apple.stackexchange.com

Søgaard, Jens K. "How do I enable transparent compression on APFS?". Ask Different. Retrieved November 13, 2019.

techrepublic.com

Vigo, Jesus (April 13, 2017). "How to set up and use Apple's APFS file system on macOS Sierra". TechRepublic.

theverge.com

Warren, Tom (March 27, 2017). "Apple is upgrading millions of iOS devices to a new modern file system today". The Verge. Vox Media. Archived from the original on March 27, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2017.

web.archive.org

Warren, Tom (March 27, 2017). "Apple is upgrading millions of iOS devices to a new modern file system today". The Verge. Vox Media. Archived from the original on March 27, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
Roger Fingas (June 13, 2016). "'Apple File System' will scale from Apple Watch to Macs, replace HFS+". Apple Insider. Archived from the original on July 23, 2016.
Hutchinson, Lee (June 13, 2016). "Digging into the dev documentation for APFS, Apple's new file system". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on January 26, 2025. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
Weintraub, Seth (June 13, 2016). "Apple File System (APFS) announced for 2017, scales 'from Apple Watch to Mac Pro' and focuses on encryption". 9to5Mac. Archived from the original on March 28, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
Hutchinson, Lee (June 13, 2016). "New file system spotted in macOS Sierra [Updated]". Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on March 28, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
Clover, Juli (March 27, 2017). "Apple Releases iOS 10.3 With Find My AirPods, APFS, App Store Review Tweaks and More". MacRumors. Archived from the original on March 27, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
Alan Loughnane (April 2017). "Updating your iPhone will give you one major benefit". joe.co.uk. Archived from the original on May 20, 2017.
Adam Leventhal (June 19, 2016). "APFS in Detail: Data Integrity". Archived from the original on June 21, 2016.
"APFS is currently unusable with most non-English languages". April 6, 2017. Archived from the original on June 8, 2017.
"How to Format a Drive With the APFS File System on macOS Sierra". Archived from the original on October 26, 2016. Retrieved October 26, 2016.

worldcat.org

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Hansen, K.H.; Toolan, F. (September 21, 2017). "Decoding the APFS file system". Digital Investigation. 22: 107–132. doi:10.1016/j.diin.2017.07.003. ISSN 1742-2876.

zdnet.com

Robin Harris (June 24, 2016). "Why Apple's APFS won't last 30 years". ZDNet.