HFS Plus

E6431

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.

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AI-generated illustration of HFS Plus

This AI-generated illustration was produced by black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev (1024x1024) from a prompt written by openai/gpt-oss-120b from the entity's label + description.

Prompt

Generate an image of HFS Plus (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+ 15
HFS Plus canonical 5
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 (23)

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
OS X El Capitan → defaultFileSystem → HFS+ ⓘ
linked to: HFS Plus
macOS High Sierra → previousDefaultFileSystem → HFS+ ⓘ
linked to: HFS Plus
Autopsy → supportsFileSystem → HFS+ ⓘ
linked to: HFS Plus
Hierarchical File System → successor → HFS+ ⓘ
linked to: HFS Plus
Disk Utility → supportsFileSystem → HFS+ ⓘ
linked to: HFS Plus