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Apple 2017 OS availability dates
19 Sep 17 - iOS 11 25 Sep 17 - MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra) Wake me up when September ends...
Mine's a 10,1 so I'm figuring High Sierra might be it's last rodeo.
Turns out the 8 hours was in fact converting the SDD to the new Apple File System - only 177GB free on a 750GB drive...
And it's going to have to last for a good while. Wife needed a new car and I'm in a wait state for about another year until the pension and IRA kick in.
I had not been paying attemtion to changes of the file system but had seen somewhere that Apple was considering going to zfs.
My Solaris UNIX server uses zfs and the pool doubles the drive space for the same amount of data but this is in case a HDD crashes there is a mirror copy on another drive. (similar to raid)
zfs on a single drive would divide it into 2 equal partitions and mirror one on the other. While this works it does not protect against drive failure since it's all on the same physical device.
As I said, I haven't looked into what they're doing as far as a new file system and it could be something totally different. Almost no Apple computer has multiple hard drives so zfs doesn't make sense. COW (cache on write) might advantageous enough. idk
It is something I need to check out.
177GB free still isn't too bad. I've got 386 free out of 500.
