That makes sense to me.
Thank you for taking the time to explain.
Thomas
On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 4:33 PM Dominic Giampaolo
wrote:
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> > I accept that it's currently not possible - but just to help me
> understand this, could you please elaborate:
> >
> > In theory, would it be possible to
Hi Dominic,
Thank you for jumping in.
I accept that it's currently not possible - but just to help me understand
this, could you please elaborate:
In theory, would it be possible to share a cloned file between two volumes?
Since they're in the same container, and the space management is
I would expect that the path being taking with the iPad Pro series could lead
to multiple volumes, among other things making the iPad more like a “computer”.
But, I would not make product plans for near term based on that thought.
Jim
James R. Cutler
james.cut...@consultant.com
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> The think that most closely resembles the HFS catalog isn't shared amongst
> volumes.
But it is. There is one btree for all volumes in a container (well,
technically, there are two btrees, one for the IDs and one for the actual
file catalog, but both are shared over all vols).
>
> On May 6, 2019, at 6:21 AM, Thomas Tempelmann wrote:
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> I was just looking into making a Deduplication tool for macOS / APFS.
>
> One common scenario would be to deduplicate macOS systems on separate
> volumes. Like, for us developers who have several macOS versions on their
> computers
I was just looking into making a Deduplication tool for macOS / APFS.
One common scenario would be to deduplicate macOS systems on separate
volumes. Like, for us developers who have several macOS versions on their
computers for software testing purposes.
I thought I could save a lot of space by
