Support for APFS/HFS and other essentials

[mszoek]

Configure the kernel
Userspace tools
Can the default root fs be APFS?

[probonopd]

Also see helloSystem/ISO#170.

[davidchisnall]

ZFS provides most of the advantages of APFS (compression, snapshots, and so on). Writing command-line tools that wrap libzfs_core and mimic the interface of Apple's disk-management tooling would be much easier than adding a kernel driver for APFS.

That said, APFS is very well documented by Apple and I'd love for someone to add FreeBSD support for it and provide some tools that abstracted over it and zfs.

[mszoek]

ZFS provides most of the advantages of APFS (compression, snapshots, and so on). Writing command-line tools that wrap libzfs_core and mimic the interface of Apple's disk-management tooling would be much easier than adding a kernel driver for APFS.

Yep, that is exactly the strategy for the native filesystem! The intent of supporting HFS+ & APFS is mostly to read/write macOS volumes like external drives or USB sticks. I had originally thought of using APFS natively but then I discovered how good ZFS is and of course that there is no kernel support for APFS yet. sad trombone

[mszoek]

Similar to #81 - closing.