Eh, mine was always on zfs first on FreeNAS then Ubuntu and it didn't seem to help.

The only thing that definitely made it worse was smb over openvpn. It'd corrupt itself every couple months instead of once or twice a year.

sorry for the non-substantive nit. because we all know what you meant.

YAGNI is about not doing work in advance. it's very confusing to say YAGNI and pruning in the same breath. it's also confusing to call this aggressive since it's been 10 years.

i wouldn't call it dead code pruning either, since the code in question here was actually reachable and used. maybe, unmaintained code pruning?

Is dead in next year's release (apart from a handful of exceptions).

While time machine used to be snappy on HDD it was build out of one of the weirdest little hacks hard links in folders. The new Time Machine might front a similar front end but under the hood its a different beast. You're having to mount snapshots as you move through time.

are you sure that is because of apfs? hdds are usually much slower, no?

I so miss these Airport APs, I really don’t understand why the product line was cancelled, it was perfect.

They are working on a userspace port, since newer versions of macOS don't/won't allow third-party kernel code ("kexts"). But it's based on Apple's newer FSKit API directly, not macFUSE or FUSE-T.

It is actually shocking to no longer be able to access my data with literally no warning.

As in, not even a dialog saying "hey this drive isn't support anymore"... just... nothing.

What exactly is Apple gaining by dropping a (presumably) super stable driver??

Nice that you can dismiss this as "largely obsolete technology" tho.

Apple's Thunderbolt FireWire 800 adapter daisy-chained with their TB2-to-TB3 adapter should work on any modern system with Thunderbolt and FireWire support, as it just presents as a bog-standard PCI FireWire card.

So worst-case, you should be able to access your old drives on a modern Mac by booting from a FireWire-compatible OS (Asahi or older macOS) on an external drive.

You used to be able to chain three adapters:

Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 Thunderbolt 2 to FireWire 800 FireWire 800 to FireWire 400

to plug a modern Mac into an iMac G4 in Target Disk Mode

Now you need to add another layer: virtualizing old macOS on a modern Mac

I had one plugged into the FW800 port of my Cinema Display.

Only really used it as a scratch drive for junk but it was still handy.

Ah. Mine died a few years ago and I just got rid of them, or else I'd have shared.

Since Lion, yes. The closest we got was SIP, which can be disabled but programs can tell. That's significant but still very far from locked-down.

Really? Can you upgrade your RAM and SSD on the new Macs? Do non-Apple OS run on the newer Macs (without being crippled in their ability to utilize the hardware), like they could on Intel Macs? Can you distribute software for Mac platform without Apple as an intermediary, outside the App Store? Can you create new kernel extensions / system software for macOS without Apple as an intermediary? (The answer to all that is No - your digital computing rights have been slowly taken away on Apple hardwares, for a while now).

When should people complain actually complain - See The Slow Boil: A History Lesson Repeated - https://www.borntotale.com/post/the-slow-boil-a-history-less... ...

In part it already did.

Large margins, large round corners, now touchscreen.

Can you imagine if people said this about political catastrophe?

"Yes, war with Iran has been threatened many times but we can rest assured it will never happen because nobody has done it before."

OCLP is a lifeline and works well. After I finally bit the bullet, my iMac is faster than it was before.

I'll wait for Apple Supremeintelligence in macOS 29

CoreStorage was also used for HFS+ formatted and encrypted external storage like Time Machine backups. If you have any of those in your archive you might not be able to read them in the future.

I've gotta agree. I'm not sure what expensive storage hardware would be both relevant today and unable to migrate off CoreStorage. For example, my most expensive storage is a NAS with an iSCSI target, and it couldn't care less what blocks I write to it. If I had a CoreStorage setup on it, I could migrate the data to a new target and then reuse that space for something else. The hardware wouldn't mind, or even know, that I'd changed what's on it.

You mentioned old, obsolete Fusion drives. I'm having a hard time thinking of anything else where that'd matter, so you're probably right about that. AFAIK you can reformat those to use something other than CoreStorage if you're actually stuck using those boat anchors.

Sidebar, but as an end user, I remain annoyed that there isn't seemingly something that's a worthy successor to fusion drives.

Like I have an Unraid box with dual NVMe (RAID1) as the "cache" drive and a bunch of spinning disks as the "array", but it's also very manual, like torrents get downloaded first to cache and then a nightly job syncs them to the array. Feels like a real missed opportunity to not be able to have this kind of config transparently managed.

I have one of those in an ageing late 2009 27" iMac running Linux. It is a Seagate ST2000DX001-1CM1, a 2TB "SSHD" which comes down to having 8 GB of NAND storage bolted on to a conventional 2TB drive. It doesn't need any special driver to do its thing so I wonder what that CoreStorage bit is supposed to be about.

Yes it does. It's basically lvm for Mac. I wonder what they do now. Do they go back to old style fixed volumes?

AFAIK "Route 53" was a net new name for such a product?