Add MacOS AFPS support for Node X

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Jack

• April 27, 2024 03:27

Using MacOS Ventura I formatted a 1TB flash drive to exFat and also tried FAT32. In both cases I tried copying my 0.5Tb music collection to the flash drive. I learned that MacOS would take days to copy the files. This is not an issue when the flash drives are formatted for the AFPS file system. Unfortunately MacOS's problem with the FAT32 and exFat file systems makes using a flash drive with the wonderful Node X impossible.

I wish the Node X OS could support the AFPS file system.

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  Seppi Evans

  Hi-Res

  • April 27, 2024 08:34

  Unfortunately APFS is not natively supported by Linux (the OS BluOS runs on) and would require additional packages to be installed, maintained and might be an overhead on the hardware.

  But I fully agree with you FAT32 in MacOS is slow, also if you have your music on an external drive connected to your Mac then it has to be either Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or HFS+ otherwise it cannot be network shared.

  I recently made a copy of my main music library to a 512GB thumb drive connected directly to my Mac formatted to FAT32 and it took at least a whole day to complete.

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