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XNU ("X is Not Unix") is the computer operating system (OS) kernel developed at Apple Inc. since December 1996 for use in the Mac OS X (now macOS) operating system and released as free and open-source software as part of the Darwin OS, which, in addition to being the basis for macOS, is also the basis for Apple TV Software, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS.
In Mac OS X Leopard 10.5, directory hard-linking was added as a fundamental part of Time Machine. In Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6, HFS+ compression was added using Deflate (Zlib). In open source and some other areas this is referred to as AppleFSCompression or decmpfs. Compressed data may be stored in either an extended attribute or the resource ...
The release of macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 (and iOS 11.4) introduced support for Messages in iCloud. [31] This feature allows messages to sync across all devices using the same iCloud account. When messages are deleted they are deleted on each device as well, and messages stored in the cloud do not take up local storage on the device anymore. [ 32 ]
HFS Plus is still supported by current versions of Mac OS, but starting with Mac OS X, an HFS volume cannot be used for booting, and beginning with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), HFS volumes are read-only and cannot be created or updated. In macOS Sierra (10.12), Apple's release notes state that "The HFS Standard filesystem is no longer supported."
Mac OS X v10.2.8 7.0 October 24, 2003 Mac OS X Panther: Mac OS X v10.3.0 BSD layer synchronized with FreeBSD 5; Automatic file defragmentation, hot-file clustering and optional case sensitivity in HFS+; Bash instead of tcsh as default shell; Read-only NTFS support (Darwin 7.9) [29] 7.9 April 15, 2005 Mac OS X v10.3.9 8.0 April 29, 2005
To provide the macOS binaries with a kernel, Darling uses a modified XNU kernel (with an APSL license) wrapped into a Linux kernel module with a GPL license. [ needs update ] It is not the same as including GPL code in APSL software, and the APSL license allows for linking from code with a different license (in this case GPL).
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.
In computing, a hard link is a directory entry (in a directory-based file system) that associates a name with a file.Thus, each file must have at least one hard link. Creating additional hard links for a file makes the contents of that file accessible via additional paths (i.e., via different names or in different directori