1New File System Biggest Improvement to Apple’s macOS High Sierra Apple’s desktop operating system macOS is getting an update. But arguably the most important feature in that update is what ...

Apple was the first computer company to make networked file sharing easy. Decades after introducing that feature on the Mac, it’s less important in an era of cloud storage.

There are things that could be done, like disguise it as a special Windows-based Boot Camp utility, perhaps one that gives file system access to the Mac partition.

While Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server supports ZFS, there's no expectation that it will replace the current Mac file system any day now, or even any year now.

It's now relying on Apple File System (APFS) instead of HFS+, which has been the de facto Mac file system since 1998's Mac OS 8.1.

That happened this week, when Sun Microsystems Inc.’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz said Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, would rely on a file system that engineers at his company have spent ...