HFS Plus

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HFS Plus is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Apple for use in macOS and earlier Macintosh operating systems, succeeding the original HFS to support larger files and volumes.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
HFS+ 10
HFS Plus canonical 3
HFS+ file system 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (58)

Predicate Object
instanceOf file system
journaling file system
proprietary software technology
alsoKnownAs HFS+
linked to: HFS Plus

Mac OS Extended
linked to: HFS Plus
backwardCompatibility partial with HFS
blockAllocationStructure B-tree
caseSensitivityDefault case-insensitive
caseSensitivityVariant HFSX (case-sensitive HFS Plus)
countryOfOrigin United States
defaultFileSystemOf Mac OS 8.1
linked to: Mac OS 8

Mac OS 9
Mac OS X 10.0
macOS Sierra
linked to: macOS
designedFor larger files
larger volumes
developer Apple Inc.
directoryStructure B-tree
fileNameEncoding UTF-16
introduced 1998
introducedIn Mac OS 8.1
linked to: Mac OS 8
license proprietary
maximumFileSize 8 exabytes (theoretical)
maximumVolumeSize 8 exabytes (theoretical)
metadataStorage allocation file
attributes file
catalog file
extents overflow file
startup file
operatingSystem Mac OS 8
Mac OS 9
Mac OS X
linked to: macOS

macOS
optimizedFor classic Mac OS metadata model
predecessor HFS
linked to: MFS
replacedAsDefaultBy APFS
replacedAsDefaultIn macOS High Sierra
linked to: macOS
replacedBy APFS
status legacy file system in modern macOS
supports POSIX permissions
supportsBooting yes on Intel-based Macs
yes on PowerPC-based Macs
supportsFeature Unicode file names
access control lists
case-insensitive file names
extended attributes
file system compression
hard links
hot file clustering
journaling
long file names
optional case-sensitive variant
resource forks
symbolic links
volume journaling
usedOn external storage devices for macOS
internal hard drives of Macintosh computers
usesAllocationBlockSize variable

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

macOS supportsFileSystem HFS+
linked to: HFS Plus
HFS Plus alsoKnownAs Mac OS Extended
linked to: HFS Plus
HFS Plus alsoKnownAs HFS+
linked to: HFS Plus
Finder supportsFileSystems HFS+
linked to: HFS Plus
MFS replacedBy Hierarchical File System
linked to: HFS Plus
Mac OS 9 defaultFileSystem HFS+
linked to: HFS Plus
APFS replaces HFS+
linked to: HFS Plus
Mac OS 8 supportsFileSystem HFS+
linked to: HFS Plus
Darwin includesComponent HFS+ file system
linked to: HFS Plus
Darwin supportsFileSystem HFS+
linked to: HFS Plus
HFS followedBy HFS Plus
HFS followedBy HFS+
linked to: HFS Plus
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther supportsFileSystem HFS+
linked to: HFS Plus
Cheetah supportsFileSystem HFS+
linked to: HFS Plus