When will ZFS become the next file system for the Mac platform? Most likely later than sooner if the examples of other file system transitions are taken into account.

When you put a new hard drive in your Mac—or connect an external one using FireWire or USB—you need to decide how to partition the drive and what file system to put on it. The easiest way to ...

The Mac has supported foreign file systems for decades with a plug-in architecture that allows macOS to mount, read, and in some cases write to and from storage volumes formatted for other computers.

Since these files can vary depending on your usage, the amount of System Data on your Mac could range from just a few gigabytes to over 100 GB.

Developers Apple File System (APFS) announced for 2017, scales ‘from Apple Watch to Mac Pro’ and focuses on encryption ...

At its WWDC developer conference today, Apple revealed that its latest (not very creatively named) macOS system, High Sierra, will run Apple File System (APFS). Apple claims that High Sierra is ...

Later VM versions, such as the ones for System 8 and System 9, have a server called The Outside World for moving files from the VM to your actual Mac desktop.

Apple has been building operating systems since 1984, when it launched the original Mac System 1.0 for its MacIntosh personal computer. Nearly 30 years of innovation has culminated in the Mac OS X ...