Macintosh systems have HFS and HFS+ file system developed by Apple Inc.
HFS was the primary file system used on Macintosh computers. HFS Plus was introduced with the January 19, 1998 release of Mac OS 8.1. HFS Plus is also referred to as HFS Extended and Mac OS Extended. During development, Apple referred to this filesystem with the codename Sequoia.
General Information of file systems used by Macintosh:
File system |
Year of introduction |
Original operating system |
Maximum filename length |
Maximum pathname length |
Maximum
file size |
Maximum volume size |
MFS |
1984 |
Mac OS |
255 bytes |
No path (flat filesystem) |
256 MiB |
256 MiB |
HFS |
1985 |
Mac OS |
31 bytes |
Unlimited |
2 GiB |
2 TiB |
HFS Plus |
1998 |
Mac OS 8.1 |
255 UTF-16 characters |
Unlimited |
16 EiB |
16 EiB |
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