{"id":20664,"date":"2018-02-22T15:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20664"},"modified":"2024-10-11T16:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T20:10:51","slug":"idefrag-and-ipartition-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/22\/idefrag-and-ipartition-discontinued\/","title":{"rendered":"iDefrag and iPartition Discontinued"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alastair Houghton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple, for whatever reason, elected to release its new filesystem — and convert existing machines over to using it — without first publishing the filesystem specification so that utility vendors like us could update our software. Four months after the release of macOS High Sierra, it still hasn’t published the necessary information, and while without seeing the details it’s hard to speculate on how much work it would be to support APFS in our utilities, it’s a good bet that it’s more than six months’ work. In the meantime, in spite of the messages we’ve put on our website, customers continue to purchase the products, realise they don’t work for them, then ask for refunds (or, worse, file chargebacks through their respective banks); this actually costs<\/em> us money, and also results in a string of less than satisfied customers. We don’t want that, and you, our customers, don’t want that either.<\/p>\n

There have also been changes in recent versions of the macOS to tighten up security, which is definitely a good thing for end users, but makes it very awkward to make utility software function in a reasonable manner.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

This is a shame because HFS+ fragmentation will likely be with us on spinning disks<\/a> for a long time. I’m also not convinced that APFS fragmentation is a non-issue on SSDs. APFS apparently includes automatic defragmentation<\/a>, but there’s little information about when and how that works. Does it do anything for large files when the disk is nearly full (as APFS volumes often will be due to snapshots<\/a>)? My brand new<\/a> Lightroom database is already fragmented into 10,833 pieces. Does that overhead really not matter? This is for a 1.5 GB file that’s stored on an SSD with (according to Finder) 363 GB available.<\/p>\n\n

See also: Aura<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

Previously: SuperDuper and APFS<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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