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Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)

76 pointsby supermatouyesterday at 4:10 PM3 commentsview on HN

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fragmedetoday at 8:33 AM

I like a good jaunt with IDApro as much as the next RE, but my question is what does ASIF do that Qcow2 doesn't?

My other question is why does it take so long to copy an app out of a dmg and into /Applications. Like, just change some pointers to pointers to data on disk and shit.

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