For those of you who have never heard of this, it's macos's LVM. Why they didn't just refer to it as LVM is beyond me.
duskwuff•34m ago
> Why they didn't just refer to it as LVM is beyond me.
Because it isn't LVM, and giving it the same name as another similar-but-distinct technology would just make matters more confusing.
Grombobulous•32m ago
According to the Wikipedia article about CoreStorage, it seems like the primary/only use case was Fusion drives (hybrid SSD/HDD hardware).
The article says “It renders your expensive storage hardware completely useless.” but I’m really curious what that hardware could actually be. This seems like a pretty dead technology.
sysguest•19m ago
...like route 53? which is "dns configuration, but fancier"
zamadatix•14m ago
AFAIK "Route 53" was a net new name for such a product?
vondur•5m ago
It doesn't really do everything that a real LVM does though. This was used to support those annoyingly bad Fusion Drives. They dropped them around 2020 I think.
exabrial•39m ago
MacOs 27 is a disaster. All of the sudden, I have 35% of a computer left to do any kind of work.
drooopy•35m ago
Among other signs of awfulness, macOS 27 (and 26 before it) half the battery life of my M1 Air, forcing me to stay on Sequoia for a 2nd year.
Grombobulous•27m ago
Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with a 6 year old battery I’m sure.
otterley•34m ago
What does that mean?
sys_64738•24m ago
Maybe referring to the Apple Superintelligence being auto-added to macOS 27.
varispeed•22m ago
I'll wait for Apple Supremeintelligence in macOS 29
hmartin•36m ago
Also dropped support for FireWire drives, as I just found out the hard way.
traceroute66•16m ago
> Also dropped support for FireWire drives, as I just found out the hard way.
throwaway27448•43m ago
duskwuff•34m ago
Because it isn't LVM, and giving it the same name as another similar-but-distinct technology would just make matters more confusing.
Grombobulous•32m ago
The article says “It renders your expensive storage hardware completely useless.” but I’m really curious what that hardware could actually be. This seems like a pretty dead technology.
sysguest•19m ago
zamadatix•14m ago
vondur•5m ago