Timeline for APFS - how do I enable transparent compression
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| Aug 23, 2021 at 13:31 | comment | added | jksoegaard | @Feuermurmel Thanks, I have updated the answer now! | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 13:30 | history | edited | jksoegaard | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 3 characters in body |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 13:16 | comment | added | Feuermurmel | The command to install via MacPorts should be sudo port install afscompress, afsctool is the original tool by brkirch. See port info afscompress afsctool. | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 18:58 | comment | added | LаngLаngС | Your github-linked tool works with APFS, but the brew version does not. ditto works in any case. | |
| Jan 17, 2020 at 13:41 | comment | added | wjv | Note that the GitHub repo referenced in the answer does not install the same tool as the Homebrew recipe which is also referenced. Homebrew installs the original, apparently abandoned tool. The GitHub repo refers to a fork which is apparently still active. (I cannot personally vouch for either implementation.) | |
| SJun 26, 2019 at 16:58 | history | suggested | ylluminate | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Add MacPorts as an option for installation |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 15:09 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| May 16, 2019 at 11:48 | comment | added | jksoegaard | I didn't write that it was "rarely implemented". I write that it is not widely used - as in not widely used outside Apple. I.e. because there's no user visible tools supplied with the OS, very few people use it to compress their own stuff. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 11:08 | comment | added | LаngLаngС | Ahm, "rarely implemented"? Run an afsctool -v /System/*/*/* (ie individual files, or wtf, the whole folder) and see that Apple uses this quite extensively, since inception. I think they also went from medium to max compression recently? [Then there are these strange & rare bugs: my grep binary fails after treatment, so do git repos after treating git, sometimes code-sigs fail.] | |
| May 15, 2019 at 13:09 | comment | added | Steve Chambers | Thanks for that, I had no idea and have deleted my (uninformed) "answer." | |
| May 15, 2019 at 8:56 | vote | accept | Sidias-Korrado | ||
| May 15, 2019 at 1:17 | history | answered | jksoegaard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
