{"id":18765,"date":"2017-08-29T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18765"},"modified":"2017-08-31T15:15:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T19:15:25","slug":"apfs-to-be-mandatory-for-ssds-in-high-sierra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/29\/apfs-to-be-mandatory-for-ssds-in-high-sierra\/","title":{"rendered":"APFS to be Mandatory for SSDs in High Sierra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT208018\">Apple<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/felix_schwarz\/status\/902077253194063873\">Felix Schwarz<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT208018\"><p>When you upgrade to macOS High Sierra, systems with all flash storage configurations are converted automatically. Systems with hard disk drives (HDD) and Fusion drives won&rsquo;t be converted to APFS. You can&rsquo;t opt-out of the transition to APFS.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Boot Camp doesn&rsquo;t support Read\/Write to APFS-formatted Mac volumes.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Volumes formatted with APFS can&rsquo;t offer share points over the network using AFP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I assumed Apple would let you opt-out, since that was possible for the betas.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/12\/pondering-the-conversion-from-hfs-to-apfs\/\">Pondering the Conversion From HFS+ to APFS.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2017-08-29): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveMoser\/status\/902591459056078851\">Steve Moser<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveMoser\/status\/902591459056078851\">\n<p>I wonder what this means for hackintoshes since I read some where that APFS requires Apple firmware.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Update (2017-08-31): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marczak\/status\/903326781666725892\">Edward Marczak<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marczak\/status\/903326781666725892\">\n<p>For anyone worried about being &ldquo;forced&rdquo; into converting to APFS, <tt>startosinstall<\/tt> still supports the <tt>--converttoapfs<\/tt> flag<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple (via Felix Schwarz): When you upgrade to macOS High Sierra, systems with all flash storage configurations are converted automatically. Systems with hard disk drives (HDD) and Fusion drives won&rsquo;t be converted to APFS. You can&rsquo;t opt-out of the transition to APFS. [&#8230;] Boot Camp doesn&rsquo;t support Read\/Write to APFS-formatted Mac volumes. [&#8230;] Volumes formatted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1395,1565,537,1402,30,1529,476,183],"class_list":["post-18765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-file-system-apfs","tag-boot-camp","tag-filesystem","tag-hackintosh","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13","tag-networking","tag-ssd"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18783,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18765\/revisions\/18783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}