<story><title>Apple releases iOS 10.3</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/27/ios-10-3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordansmithnz</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been running the beta for a few weeks now. The thing that stands out the most? They changed the filesystem, and I haven&amp;#x27;t noticed a thing - the upgrade time wasn&amp;#x27;t even significantly longer. If anything, the beta has been more stable than 10.2 releases.&lt;p&gt;The fact they&amp;#x27;ve pulled it off so seamlessly is pretty impressive. Heck, the majority of users won&amp;#x27;t have a clue that their filesystem has changed, and that&amp;#x27;s the way it should be - users shouldn&amp;#x27;t be required to know about technical implementation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>&amp;gt; the upgrade time wasn&amp;#x27;t even significantly longer&lt;p&gt;I wonder if it works like FileVault, where there&amp;#x27;s a notion of a &amp;quot;partially converted&amp;quot; volume and blocks are slowly converted as a background-idle task after the update completes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple releases iOS 10.3</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/27/ios-10-3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordansmithnz</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been running the beta for a few weeks now. The thing that stands out the most? They changed the filesystem, and I haven&amp;#x27;t noticed a thing - the upgrade time wasn&amp;#x27;t even significantly longer. If anything, the beta has been more stable than 10.2 releases.&lt;p&gt;The fact they&amp;#x27;ve pulled it off so seamlessly is pretty impressive. Heck, the majority of users won&amp;#x27;t have a clue that their filesystem has changed, and that&amp;#x27;s the way it should be - users shouldn&amp;#x27;t be required to know about technical implementation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrmondo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve noticed a perceived decreased in IO latency, but haven&amp;#x27;t scientifically measured it.</text></comment>