Sorry, I mean it's not supported in anything before Yosemite - i.e. they're not going to 'back port' it. If you have backups of HFS+ partitions you can recover them to a APFS formatted drive, but you won't then be able to read that data on a (say) Lion equipped Mac. A Sierra Mac will be able to read an old mac's drive, but the old mac won't be able to read the Sierra mac's drive. So essentially if you have old macs you're going to have to stick with HFS+ for everything. However this is definitely been on the plan for a while, I wouldn't expect HFS+ to be supported forever.

And disk utilities, probably virtual machine software as well and a few other things will have to be updated to support the new file system I suspect.

They're also retiring AFS. All Mac file sharing from Sierra onwards will be SMB (SMB3, I assume).

Okay, cheers that makes sense.
Also, having just read a little on the topic since I replied to you above, it seems Time Machine will also have to work differently than it now does because the hard links in the OS will be replaced with snapshots, so I suspect Time Machine will be re-written.
I also quite like the variable amount of encryption that is at user level.
There's a lot going on with MacOS once you scratch the surface.

Mark

This experimental Windows 10 feature will rid your computer of preinstalled apps | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing ... ps-1323582

And probably change all those privacy settings. Again.

To baldly go: scientists have found a way to 3D print hair | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of- ... ir-1323661

That might actually be worse than the increasingly sad amount of men now dying theirs.
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BT's new Smart Hub wants to make you bin your Wi-Fi extender | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/networkin ... er-1323652

'It's just a real shame you'll need to use us to get one.'

http://www.joeaday.com/rock-n-roll-1991/

I miss that toy - my uncle brought it back from the States, it was the only one I ever had but it was great.

Should you get amped up about high-impedance headphones? | TechRadar
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The US Navy is pushing ahead with its electromagnetic cannon | TechRadar
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Microsoft kills another Xbox One feature | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/co ... py-1324051

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if that became a court case. You're in with a chance...

Microsoft's Windows 10 forced update is so aggressive, it got sued big time | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing ... me-1324053

There's no way she hasn't heard of Windows 10, is there? Unless all her updates happened while the PC was left on overnight, and even then... It's priceless that MS found themselves in this position though. There was another recent story where they effectively cost a charity $87k and endangered lives, because a laptop used to keep environmentalists safe from armed poachers with a satellite visual feed and connection started downloading an update of some description. MS have been utter w@nkers with 10.

Though some people can't be helped - I told everyone in work the score with updates etc and they still went and signed up to 10.

'My Steam downloads are really slow!' Yeah, that'll be those massive updates and your ISP.

'I can't play videos any more!' Yeah, you'll need to download something like VLC. What? No, you'll need to find it yourself.

'My laptop continually reboots!' Yeah, I fcuking warned you they wouldn't test the updates, didn't I?

But wait!

Oops! Windows 10 Anniversary Update release date accidentally revealed | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing ... ed-1324090

Whoo!

Here's how I came to spend over $200 on a keyboard | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing ... rd-1325137

That made me wonder if there's a market for just colourfully funky plastic ones. Joe Average won't give a crap about switches, colour and form factor though...

I hope it's waterproof, so you can use it after we chuck both you and your keyboard in the sea.

This just made me laugh out loud.

Mark

The brilliant Prisma is now available for Android - please use this link as there's a very prominent fake that Google should have fcuking removed by now...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... uralprisma

Available for iPhone too, please try it! It's especially great for turning photos of people into painting and sketches, or vast action figure collections

Microsoft confirms two more major Windows 10 updates for 2017 | TechRadar
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Game-changing earbuds could make up for the iPhone 7's biggest flaw | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... aw-1326114

Wires need to fcuk off ASAP.

How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/ ... ad-1326145

I knew you could inject Teletext into a Pi's signal. I didn't know it had moved along like this.

My own HTML based recreation is here:
http://worldofpaul.com/teletext/

You can now play tons of free Amiga games in your browser | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/yo ... er-1326226