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Hyperspace

itical Hyperspace My interest in file systems started when I discovered how type and creator codes1 and resource forks contributed to the fantastic user interface on my original Macintosh in 1984. In the late 1990s, when it looked like Apple might buy Be Inc.

Copy-on-write clones are based on the same underlying architectural features that enable snapshots: a flexible arrangement between directory entries and their corresponding file contents. By the end of that week, I’d written a barebones Mac app to do the same thing my Perl script was doing. Even so, there are still many rough edges to Swift 6, and I look forward to things being smoothedout a bit in the coming years.

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