
Sometimes, to make it to the future, you need a fresh approach. Running in the red, maybe, held together with bubblegum and paperclips, but running.īut running in the red is no way to get to the future. Through it all, HFS+ and its valiant crew have kept it running. We've gone from rigid, single-threaded data structures to more flexible approaches. We've also gone from hard drive platters to solid state disks, from physical installs to digital downloads, and from manual backups to Time Machine and iCloud. Since then we've gone from the Mac to iPhone, Apple TV, iPad, and Apple Watch, from a few million devices to over a billion devices, and from kilobytes and megabytes of data to gigabytes, terabytes, and beyond.


HFS+ has been around since 1998 - almost twenty years ago - and has been updated and McGyver'd in almost every way imaginable since then in order to try and keep up with the demands of modern computing.
