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apfs-fuse
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sgan81 / apfs-fuse

apfs-fuse

FUSE driver for APFS (Apple File System)

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What it is

FUSE driver for APFS (Apple File System)

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Where it is used

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-04-02 02:35:27 UTC to 2025-09-18 15:55:24 UTC.

0122018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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dreamcompiler·Sep 18, 2025
> Also - can one access certain Mac folders in Asahi (e.g. ~/Pictures)? And is it even recommended, if it's possible (Security wise)? You cannot access any of your Mac folders in Asahi. Your Mac partitions are invisible until you reboot into MacOS. Some potential workarounds: 1. Use Syncthing to sync your Pictures folder on both operating systems to an external Mac. This of course duplicates the contents of the folder on your Mac/Asahi SSD, which is wasteful. [Note: Dropbox does not work on Asahi Linux because it only barely works on x86 Linux and it has never worked on Arm Linux.] 2. Use an external USB or SD drive for files you want to share. Needs to be formatted in something both OSes can read/write (e.g. not APFS). 3. Use Paragon's $40 extFS which lets MacOS read and write to your Linux partition. Supposedly; I haven't tried it. This
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only solves half your problem: It gives MacOS access to your Linux files but not the reverse. https://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-mac/ What's really needed is a way to mount APFS partitions from Linux, and I plan to DDG that as soon as I finish typing this... UPDATE: APFS FUSE seems to be recommended, although it only provides read access to your APFS partition. https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse 4. Make a brand new partition on your drive for shared files, and format it exFAT. MacOS can read/write exFAT natively and Linux can usually be made to do so, although I haven't tried it yet on Asahi. This seems to me like the most promising option if you don't want to depend on an external drive.
In KDE is now my favorite desktop
heavyset_go·Jul 14, 2021
> You're running linux (with nix installed) on the bare metal of a mac, and then a VM on top of that running macos (with VFIO passthrough so it's not dog-slow?), is that right? You got it. > Performance is pretty reasonable? APFS works fine in this setup? Works well enough for my use cases. It's certainly less slow and fragile than running Linux in a VM via macOS. APFS works fine in the VM, but I use HFS+ just because there are more mature tools to poke at HFS+ images than APFS, right now. The APFS FUSE drivers work well and support reading and writing[1]. There's a closed source driver that supports writing and encryption, though[2]. > No gotchas with drive encryption? ... actually, if your machine does use drive encryption, which is doing it, linux or mac? I don't know enough about mac hardware to know if there is some mac boot environm
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ent that handles encryption and then hands off to the OS (be it macos or linux). I don't use T2 disk encryption, I just let Linux handle partition encryption. Apparently there's support here[3] for it, though. [1] https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse [2] https://www.paragon-software.com/us/business/apfs-linux/ [3] https://wiki.t2linux.org/
In macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
kirb·Aug 21, 2019
Worth noting the hfsplus driver in Linux can only mount as read-only, unless you manually mount it with the flag to force it to ignore the journal... which is a silly idea when journaling is what makes modern filesystems so resilient. apfs-fuse is actually in a more promising position than hfsplus, as it supports mounting any volume in the APFS partition, FileVault encrypted volumes, and Fusion Drive volumes. Granted no distro is shipping apfs-fuse that I know of. They probably could at this point as it is read-only. https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse
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