Apple adds apfs filesystem to ios 10.3

Apple seems determined to retire the HFS + file system, which it has been using since 1998. The replacement for this file system is APFS (Apple File System), which the apple company added to macOS last June in Beta status..

The new file system is added to iOS 10.3

Apple intends to add the APFS file system not only to macOS but also to iOS, its mobile and tablet system. The APFS system has been surprisingly added to the latest Beta of iOS 10.3, which is scheduled for its final version in the second quarter of this year.

The most interesting thing about this new filesystem is that it will allow a migration of the old HFS + without the user practically noticing it. This modality is very different from what happened when Microsoft added the NTFS filesystem to replace FAT32, a headache that requires reformatting the disk (although there are third-party tools that help a conversion without formatting).

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APFS will offer better security and higher performance

The improvements that APFS adds with respect to HFS + are several and some quite technical to explain.

• Firstly, APFS will work in 64-bit environments supporting 1 nanosecond granularity at runtime, this is a 1 second improvement over HFS +. It supports sparse files and allows to improve volume performance thanks to the expansive block mapper, It allows to store large files in a random way. APFS also has a 'copy-on-write' metadata design that allows autosave to ensure the update of files, this makes it more secure and avoids the current overload that occurs. in the HFS + file system. Another important addition is the compatibility with AES-XTS and AES-CBC for data encryption on disk.

In short, APFS improves security and offers better performance in data access. The fact that the user does not have to do anything to start