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HFS Plus or HFS+ (also known as Mac OS Extended or HFS Extended [5]) is a journaling file system developed by Apple Inc. It replaced the Hierarchical File System (HFS) as the primary file system of Apple computers with the 1998 release of Mac OS 8.1.
HFS is a small HTTP file server, aimed at mostly sharing files for download. The official documentation describes HFS as: HFS (HTTP File Server) is file sharing software which allows you to send and receive files. You can limit this sharing to just a few friends, or be open to the whole world.
Hierarchical File System (HFS) is a proprietary file system developed by Apple Inc. for use in computer systems running Mac OS. Originally designed for use on floppy and hard disks , it can also be found on read-only media such as CD-ROMs .
The hierarchical file system was used instead of simply expanding the flat directory for performance reasons. "A flat DOS file structure with a single directory and 10 times as many files would logically require 10 times as long to search." [2] OS/2 and Windows also support a hierarchical file system, using the same path syntax as DOS.
HFS – Hierarchical File System in IBM's MVS from MVS/ESA OpenEdition through z/OS V2R4; not to be confused with Apple's HFS. IBM stated that z/OS users should migrate from HFS to zFS, and in z/OS V2R5 dropped support for HFS. HFS – Hierarchical File System, in use until HFS+ was introduced on Mac OS 8.1. Also known as Mac OS Standard format.
Apple File System was announced at Apple's developers’ conference (WWDC) in June 2016 as a replacement for HFS+, which had been in use since 1998. [11] [12] APFS was released for 64-bit iOS devices on March 27, 2017, with the release of iOS 10.3, and for macOS devices on September 25, 2017, with the release of macOS 10.13.
Hierarchical File System (HFS) 1987: Compaq MS-DOS 3.31: FAT16B: 1988: AmigaOS v1.3: Amiga Fast File System (FFS) 1989: OS/2 v1.2: High Performance File System (HPFS ...
Hierarchical file system, a system for organizing directories and files; Hierarchical File System (Apple), a file system introduced in 1985 for the classic Mac OS; Hierarchical File System (IBM MVS), a file system introduced in 1993 for MVS/ESA and subsequent operating systems; Hi Performance FileSystem, a file system used by the HP-UX ...