HFS Plus

E6431

file system journaling file system proprietary software technology

HFS Plus is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Apple for use in macOS and earlier Macintosh operating systems, succeeding the original HFS to support larger files and volumes.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
HFS+	10
HFS Plus canonical	3
HFS+ file system	1
Hierarchical File System	1
Mac OS Extended	1

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	file system ⓘ journaling file system ⓘ proprietary software technology ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	HFS Plus ⓘ surface form: HFS+ HFS Plus ⓘ surface form: Mac OS Extended
backwardCompatibility	partial with HFS ⓘ
blockAllocationStructure	B-tree ⓘ
caseSensitivityDefault	case-insensitive ⓘ
caseSensitivityVariant	HFSX (case-sensitive HFS Plus) ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
defaultFileSystemOf	Mac OS 8 ⓘ surface form: Mac OS 8.1 Mac OS 9 ⓘ Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah ⓘ surface form: Mac OS X 10.0 macOS ⓘ surface form: macOS Sierra
designedFor	larger files ⓘ larger volumes ⓘ
developer	Apple Inc. ⓘ
directoryStructure	B-tree ⓘ
fileNameEncoding	UTF-16 ⓘ
introduced	1998 ⓘ
introducedIn	Mac OS 8 ⓘ surface form: Mac OS 8.1
license	proprietary ⓘ
maximumFileSize	8 exabytes (theoretical) ⓘ
maximumVolumeSize	8 exabytes (theoretical) ⓘ
metadataStorage	allocation file ⓘ attributes file ⓘ catalog file ⓘ extents overflow file ⓘ startup file ⓘ
operatingSystem	Mac OS 8 ⓘ Mac OS 9 ⓘ macOS ⓘ surface form: Mac OS X macOS ⓘ
optimizedFor	classic Mac OS metadata model ⓘ
predecessor	MFS ⓘ surface form: HFS
replacedAsDefaultBy	APFS ⓘ
replacedAsDefaultIn	macOS ⓘ surface form: macOS High Sierra
replacedBy	APFS ⓘ
status	legacy file system in modern macOS ⓘ
supports	POSIX permissions ⓘ
supportsBooting	yes on Intel-based Macs ⓘ yes on PowerPC-based Macs ⓘ
supportsFeature	Unicode file names ⓘ access control lists ⓘ case-insensitive file names ⓘ extended attributes ⓘ file system compression ⓘ hard links ⓘ hot file clustering ⓘ journaling ⓘ long file names ⓘ optional case-sensitive variant ⓘ resource forks ⓘ symbolic links ⓘ volume journaling ⓘ
usedOn	external storage devices for macOS ⓘ internal hard drives of Macintosh computers ⓘ
usesAllocationBlockSize	variable ⓘ

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Apple Macintosh computers → fileSystem → HFS Plus ⓘ

Classic Mac OS → defaultFileSystem → HFS Plus ⓘ

macOS → supportsFileSystem → HFS Plus ⓘ