[Radiance-general] High Sierra OS - latest

[Guglielmetti, Robert]

That’s just disk encryption stuff — low level. The filesystem will/should
still appear and behave the same to native apps, and permissions will
behave the same way.


On 10/24/17, 7:46 AM, "Shakespeare, Robert A." <shakespe at indiana.edu>
wrote:

>I just received notice of the availability of “High Sierra”(4+) MacOS.
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>It includes the following:
>Upgrade the performance, reliability, and security of your Mac with the
>new Apple File System.
>.Update to a new file system architecture designed for all Flash Macs
>.Protect your entire drive with built-in native encryption for greater
>security.
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>Well I have a built-in flash drive, and the primary purpose of this
>laptop is for Radiance, running in an Xquartz X11 system.
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>Does the new file system and its protections affect command-line
>Radiance? I currently run OSX  10.12.6. Trying to avoid a dysfunctional
>laptop if patches are needed to run Radiance.
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>Thanks!
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>Rob