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Apple's APFS Migration: A Feat of Engineering
Whenever I talk with programmer friends about Apple I try to sneak the following story in. Usually I start with “did you know that Apple…?” and end by leaning back in the chair, my index finger pointing at the table, and me saying “… now that’s engineering.”
Shipping a file system migration that users won’t even notice, over night, silently, to hundreds of millions of devices. I don’t know, maybe I get nervous just thinking about having to program a migration like that because my personal success rate with file system changes isn’t the greatest. Multiple times in the past I’ve accidentally destroyed Linux and Windows installations by messing something up on the CLI.
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