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throwaway27448 • yesterday at 9:26 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

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.


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duskwuff • yesterday at 9:34 PM

> 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.

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vondur • yesterday at 10:03 PM

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.

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