Re: searchfs support on APFS

After more testing and communications with Apple engineers and other devs relying on this function I like to post a summary, in case anyone else is interested in using the CatSearch operation with APFS: 1. searchfs() is implemented for APFS on 10.12.6 and 10.13b3 (and earlier versions probably,

Re: searchfs support on APFS

FSCatalogSearch is part of the deprecated Carbon File Manager API. The Carbon File Manager API exposes file IDs and directory IDs as 32-bit values and so FSCatalogSearch will never be supported on APFS (which use 64-bit file IDs and directory IDs). In 10.13: • PBCatSearch on APFS volumes will

Re: searchfs support on APFS

I believe searchfs(2) was not implemented in last year’s releases, but it should have been there starting with the WWDC build this year. Eric > On 6 Jul 2017, at 10:42 AM, Thomas Tempelmann wrote: > > I was kindly informed that 10.12 already supports searchfs (and >

Re: searchfs support on APFS

I was kindly informed that 10.12 already supports searchfs (and FSCatalogSearch along with it) on APFS, and after doing some testing myself it turned out that it's all working as intended, and that I just did the testing wrong, on my misguided assumptions, along with using an outdated version of