617: An Incredibly Dangerous App

2521.977 - 2545.684 John Siracusa

Yeah, I'm not going to use a CP command like an animal, but yeah. APFS, the file system that macOS and iOS and all the other devices use, Apple's file system, has a feature that lets you make a, quote, clone of a file where you get a complete independent copy of that file Essentially for free. Because it shares the storage with the other file. And not like a hard link or a symlink or an alias.