January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
402 pages
10h 6m
English
book
Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition
by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
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The APFS filesystem
APFS is a new filesystem for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. It is a 64-bit filesystem and supports over 9 quintillion files on a single volume. Here is the list of its main features:
- Clones: Instantaneous copies of files or directories. Modifications are written elsewhere and continue to share the unmodified blocks; changes are saved as deltas of the cloned file.
- Snapshots: Points-in-time, read-only instances of the filesystem.
- Space sharing: Allows multiple filesystems to share the same underlying free space on a physical volume.
- Encryption: There are three modes:
- No encryption
- Single-key encryption
- Multi-key encryption with per-file keys for file data and a separate key for sensitive metadata
Depending on the hardware, ...