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veidr on June 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: APFS in Detail

Here's the thing: everybody needs this sort of data integrity.

Literally nobody wants their files to be silently corrupted. ZFS made it much easier for (nerds like us) to attain very high levels of data integrity.

APFS was (and maybe still is?) a chance to make that the default for regular people.

mindajar on June 20, 2016 [–]

Do checksums actually need to be in the filesystem, though? It does seem like an important feature, but couldn't they be done at a higher level, like the way Spotlight indexing works on the Mac today?

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