Minimum APFS OS support?

[LockDown]

Aside from HS & Sierra, I am just curious if Yosemite and El Capitan can read AFPS too?

[fantomas]

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/APFS_Guide/FAQ/FAQ.html

[Cyberdevs]

Aside from HS & Sierra, I am just curious if Yosemite and El Capitan can read AFPS too?

There is no official support in El Capitan and the Yosemite which means the APFS formatted hard disk drives can not be mounted. Maybe some other third party apps will be available later but I don't know any right now.

[PippoX0]

Easy Test

 

Maybe interesting to try.
0)Use a Clover USB with APFS.EFI drivers.
1)Boot in High Sierra
2) prepare an APFS formatted partition and verify APFS access

3) Boot in El Capitain, Yosemite, ectc. to check if APFS partition is readable/writeable.

 

p.s. ( MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 is OK)

       To get some third party apps we must wait that Apple will publish the APFS volume format specification.

  

Who wanna try  and report back ?

[Cyberdevs]

Easy Test

 

Maybe interesting to try.

0)Use a Clover USB with APFS.EFI drivers.

1)Boot in High Sierra

2) prepare an APFS formatted partition and verify APFS access

3) Boot in El Capitain, Yosemite, ectc. to check if APFS partition is readable/writeable.

 

p.s. ( MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 is OK)

 

Who wanna try  and report back ?

APFS partition format was first introduced with macOS Sierra so it can mount, read/write on APFS volumes. The APFS partitions can't be mounted in macOSes prior to macOS Sierra.

 

I have macOS El Capitan, macOS Sierra and High Sierra Installed and I have two APFS formatted volumes and they won't show/mount in El Capitan. They can't be mounted with diskutil command.

[ITzTravelInTime]

i confirm that in sierra 10.12.4 + apsf work fine, but the installer of elcappitan does not see any apfs partition in my machine