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[koolba]

I’d imagine it’d be difficult for Apple to migrate to anything substantially different as it’d require rewriting a potentially multi GB file, the space for which many users would not have. It’s effectively a massive, distributed, database migration.

[shepherdjerred → koolba]

Database formats change all of the time. There's no technical challenge here that hasn't been solved before.