10.11 Disk Utility.app Support for Core Storage

Originator:jon
Number:rdar://23041914 Date Originated:08-Oct-2015 07:20 PM
Status:Closed Resolved:Will not fix
Product:OS X Product Version:10.11
Classification:Bug Reproducible:Always
 
Summary:
The Disk Utility.app should have full support for Core Storage capabilities. For example, Disk Utility.app should have the capability to create cs volumes that span multiple disks.

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Actual Results:
Disk Utility in 10.11 does not fully support Core Storage capabilities. For example, it is not possible to create a volume that spans multiple drives using Disk Utility.app. It is possible from the command line with `diskutil` thankfully, but an advanced UI interface would be useful.

Version:
10.11 (15A284)

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14-Oct-2015 10:51 AM

Apple Developer Relations

There are no plans to address this based on the following:

These features are not fully supported by apple so disk utility will not expose them.

We are now closing this report.

If you have questions about the resolution, or if this is still a critical issue for you, then please update your bug report with that information.

Please be sure to regularly check new Apple releases for any updates that might affect this issue.

By jon at Oct. 27, 2015, 12:43 a.m. (reply...)

12-Oct-2015 11:46 AM

Apple Developer Relations

There are no plans to address this based on the following:

Non factory fusion drives are not supported by Apple. So, no, we're not adding full CS support because those features are not supported.

We are now closing this report.

If you have questions about the resolution, or if this is still a critical issue for you, then please update your bug report with that information.

Please be sure to regularly check new Apple releases for any updates that might affect this issue.

By jon at Oct. 27, 2015, 12:41 a.m. (reply...)

15-Oct-2015 06:57 PM

Jon Stacey

Understood, but the excuse is fairly weak given Apple itself makes use of these features. I have created a new report [23138127] as an enhancement request to bring CS to full support so that this one can be closed.

By jon at Oct. 27, 2015, 12:40 a.m. (reply...)

13-Oct-2015 09:39 AM

The use case is not specific to Fusion drive--rather, the use case is the creation of logical volume groups. In other words, volumes that span multiple physical drives or partitions. For example, let's say I have two external Thunderbold hard drives and want to create an LVG as a single volume that spans them. This isn't Fusion, but just LVG.

By jon at Oct. 27, 2015, 12:38 a.m. (reply...)

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