APFS was publicly released slightly less than a year ago. The entire timeline of the project seems extraordinarily, even foolishly rushed. Is it really such a surprise that there are bugs like this that suggest Apple cannot deliver reliability and stability for something as important as a filesystem in such a short time?
This is a genuine question; I think the answer is “it’s not” but I’m not sure.
A common adage is that it takes a decade to mature a file system. And my experience with ZFS more or less confirms this. Apple will be delivering APFS broadly with 3-4 years of development so will need to accelerate quickly to maturity.
It seems like they were acutely aware of the truncated timeline (source).
APFS was publicly released slightly less than a year ago. The entire timeline of the project seems extraordinarily, even foolishly rushed. Is it really such a surprise that there are bugs like this that suggest Apple cannot deliver reliability and stability for something as important as a filesystem in such a short time?
This is a genuine question; I think the answer is “it’s not” but I’m not sure.
It seems like they were acutely aware of the truncated timeline (source).