Afsctool Hfs Compression For Mac

• The Mac's built-in compression and decompression option uses the ZIP format, which also happens to be one of the most commonly used archive file formats on the Internet. It's a lossless data compression scheme, which means that your file will remain exactly the same after being compressed then decompressed—you won't lose any data.
• In Mac OS X 10.6, Apple introduced file compression (AppleFSCompression, internally) in HFS+. Compression is most often used for files installed as part of Mac OS X; user files are typically not compressed (but certainly can be!). Reading and writing compressed files is transparent as far as Apple's file system APIs.
• Mac OS Extended was introduced in 1998 for Mac OS 8.1, the previous iteration of the desktop operating system found on Apple's computers which ran on IBM's PowerPC processors.Marking the switch to.
• On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 19:31 -0400, Tony wrote: Are there any patches (or planned updates) to rsync v3.0.6 to handle the HFS+ File Compression that Apple introduced with Snow Leopard?

Opened 2 years ago

Afsctool -v filename The built-in compression feature of APFS is implemented in the same way as it was on HFS+. That support was introduced with OS X 10.6. Even though it has thus been a part of the macOS system for almost 10 years, it is not really widely used.

Closed 22 months ago

Last modified 22 months ago

#57396closedenhancement (fixed)

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