APFS

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2016–2023), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with APFS, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Space reporting is non-intuitive, so users get confused about file sizes2023-08-21
Can't tell why a volume spanning internal and external disks won't boot2020-09-24
Opening and seeking through video files on external spinning drives is slow2020-02-03
Filenames with umlauts stored as two characters break bash and cause confusion2017-06-06
Inconsistent filename normalization across APIs makes file names behave unpredictably2017-06-06
Rsync round-trips create duplicate filenames unless careful encoding flags are used2016-06-14