proprietary
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that supports read-only access of APFS drives. An independent read-only
open source
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implementation by Joachim Metz, libfsapfs, is released under
GNU Lesser General Public License
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v3. It has been packaged into
Debian
Debian (), also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of D ...
,
Fedora Linux
Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. Fedora contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of open-source technologies. Fedora is the upstream sourc ...
,
Rocky Linux
Rocky Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, which is a privately owned benefit corporation that describes itself as a "self imposed not-for-profit". It is intended to be a Downstream (software development ...
,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial open-source Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86-64, Power ISA, ARM64, and IBM Z and a desktop version ...
and
Ubuntu
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software repositories. Both are command-line tools that do not expose a normal filesystem driver interface. There is a
Filesystem in Userspace
Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a software interface for Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems that lets non-privileged users create their own file systems without editing kernel code. This is achieved by running file system code in use ...
(FUSE) driver for Linux called apfs-fuse with read-only access. An "APFS for Linux" project is working to integrate APFS support into the Linux kernel.
See also
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Comparison of file systems
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file systems.
General information
Limits
Metadata
Features File capabilities
Block capabilities
Note that in addition to the below table, blo ...
References
External links
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Apple Developer
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WWDC
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Dominic Giampaolo
Dominic P. Giampaolo is a software developer who helped develop the Be File System for the Be Operating System (BeOS) and currently works at Apple Inc.
After graduating from Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Maine in 1987, he started studying p ...