Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 252

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 252. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Waterproof to below the knees, it even recorded in a book until relegation in 2017.

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Macintosh Extended (HFS+)

Waterproof (a macintosh) to below the knees (extended), it even recorded in a book (it journals) until relegation in 2017 (when it was replaced by APFS as the macOS primary file system).

2: Formerly obese, it stretched windows onto flash storage in 2006.

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ExFAT

Formerly (ex-) obese (fat), it stretched windows onto flash storage in 2006 (introduced then for Windows to support Flash storage systems).

3: A reflected image manages files inside Apple silicon’s guests.

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virtiofs

A reflected image (virtual) manages files (what it does) inside Apple silicon’s guests (it’s the file system used in macOS VMs running on Apple silicon Macs).

The common factor

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They’re each file systems supported by macOS Sonoma.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.