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Apple File System in macOS High Sierra Won't Work With Fusion Drives (arstechnica.co.uk)
An anonymous reader shares a report: MacOS High Sierra will come out of beta and roll out to the public next week. If you have previously installed the beta version, you may need to take extra steps before installing the release so your Fusion Drive-toting machine doesn't experience any negative consequences. Apple announced that the new Apple File system (APFS) won't immediately support Fusion Drives and will only support systems with all-flash built-in storage in the initial release of High Sierra. Those who tested out the beta versions of macOS High Sierra had their Fusion Drives converted to the new APFS. However, support was removed from the most recent beta versions, and it isn't coming back with the public release of High Sierra. Apple provided a set of instructions to help those users convert their Fusion Drives back from APFS to the standard HFS+ format before installing the High Sierra update. The instructions include backing up data using Time Machine, creating a bootable installer, reformatting the machine using Disk Utility, and reinstalling the operating system update.
Why is this even news? A feature in a beta version of software got cut for the GM. Happens all the time. Any idiot can read between the lines and understands that there's a bug in APFS for fusion drives, and rather than delay the release, Apple is just disabling it on fusion drives until a point update down the line.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
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fusion drive a hard disk drive with a NAND flash storage. this has been around for nearly a decade and exists in MAC as a cost savings measure at the expense of performance and is best suited toward mac customers as the moniker is far more critical to them than any demonstrable value.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Delivering an half-baked new file system.
Will $CURRENT_YEAR be the year of the Linux Desktop?
That's what happens when you join a beta. The vendor learns things, fixes bugs, delays features, and makes changes.
I mean seriously. Not trying to be a troll. How is this news?
Mike @ The Geek Pub. Let's Make Stuff!
Except when it doesn't.
Having read a lot of 1950s and 1960s science fiction, I can confidently say that the usual fusion drive is operated by an engineer with a slide rule, not by a computer of any kind.
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You don't provide device support with a filesystem in a beta and then remove it in the GA release unless something significant was found wrong with it. Like fundamentally wrong with it rather than just a collection of bugs. If I was a beta tester with a fusion drive I would be rather worried now about the state of my data.
Last I heard, a fusion drive was a theoretical propulsion system for interplanetary spacecraft. I'm assuming this just means a hybrid SSD/mechanical drive? You know, the kind we've had for years and years? Fuck Apple and it's vile marketing department.
Apple users continue to be fucking idiots.
"Apple provided a set of instructions to help those users convert their Fusion Drives back from APFS to the standard HFS+ format before installing the High Sierra update?
Anyone know the link? Please provide...
Spinning rust does not provide all of the features flash does, features that are being used by APFS.
So in the beta only the features could be used that are common to both flash and spinning harddisks.
To take full advantage of the features of flash, the OS has to reside on flash storage. You can still use spinning disks, just not for booting High Sierra on APFS.
If I was a beta tester with a fusion drive I would be rather worried now about the state of my data.
if you are a beta tester and you are worried about the state of your data:
YOU WERE AN IDIOT FOR TRUSTING A BETA IN THE FIRST PLACE
All we want is for Apple to support our Mr. Fusion powered DeLorean time machine. Yet they refuse! How is Marty supposed to get Back to the Future unless the Fusion Drive is supported?!
Isn't that the thing you need to build if you want to build Battlecruisers?
What's it got to do with Apple and file systems?
People do idiotic things when they think they are being leading edge explorers. 'Beta' attracts the propellerhead contingent. I can't say I haven't been guilty of such foolishness in my indiscretionate earlier years.
I remember the first Windows NT beta. I went for it hot and heavy. I actually spent $1200 on a new 486 (33 megahertz!) motherboard and 16 megs of ram for it. And I needed a CD-ROM drive, so I went straight to CompUSA and spent another $600 on the Sound Blaster Multimedia PC upgrade. That was a 1x propritary interface CD-ROM drive that plugged into a Sound Blaster Pro card. This was before the existence of IDE CD drives, the wiser option would have been an even more expensive SCSI setup.
Anyhow, I went full-bore with the Windows NT beta install. I eagerly converted my hard drive full of all my 'stuff' (a 300 MB ESDI drive which was a serious piece of hardware in that era) to the NTFS. Then I discovered something interesting. The propritary Sound Blaster CD drive was supported for installing NT, but there was NO driver support for the drive once NT was installed. My fancy new multimedia CDROM PC was gimped completely. Being the young idiot I was at the time, I trashed it all, lost everything, and reverted back to the DOS.
The only saving grace in the whole thing was that right after this, in the winter of 1993, Yggdrasil came out with their 'plug and play Linux' distribution (the first edition, with the white-cover manual printed with green and black ink), which worked fabulously on systems with the Sound Blaster Pro CDROM system. I was one of the first people in the world to boot up a commercial ready-for-consumers Linux and had a highly capable system to do it with. The Yggdrasil system booted from a floppy drive but then launched a live filesystem Linux off the CD-ROM. It played music at the login prompt and the demo sequence loaded an MPEG video on X11.
Anyways, that is a diversion, but I never would have has the hardware just sitting there ready for Linux if NT hadn't been such a disaster for me.
I'll have to use my fission drive then.
Tracy Johnson
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