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<h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>Apple CoreStorage defines four types of objects, instances of which are uniquely represented by a UUID: </p> <ul><li>Physical Volume (PV)</li></ul> This is the actual physical storage device such as an internal hard drive or solid state drive. A PV is normally real media but it can be a disk image or even an AppleRAID Set. A disk offered to be a PV must be a partition and the encompassing scheme must be GPT. <ul><li>Logical Volume Group (LVG)</li></ul> This is the equivalent of volume groups in <a href="/facts/Logical_Volume_Manager_(Linux)/HV86mJw0">Linux LVM</a>. The Logical Volume Group (LVG) is the top or "pool" level; zero or more may exist during any OS boot time session. An LVG exports zero or more Logical Volume Families (LVFs). <ul><li>Logical Volume Family (LVF)</li></ul> An LVF contains properties which govern and bind together all of its descendant Logical Volumes (LVs). These properties mainly provide settings for full disk encryption (such as whether the LVG is encrypted, which users have access, etc). An LVF exports one or more LVs. <ul><li>Logical Volume (LV)</li></ul> A logical volume exports a dev node, upon which a file system (such as Journaled HFS+) resides. <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <p>Apple's current implementation is not intended for the traditional roles that LVMs were/are used for. For example, as of 2014, the pool cannot be expanded as the storage grows. Also in 10.7, the pool can comprise only a single drive. Core Storage also doesn't support thin provisioning, different RAID levels or resiliency. However, like in Linux, but unlike in Windows, the LVM can be used as the root filesystem, a significant advantage for home users who prefer to have a single volume for the OS and storage or find the need to extend the amount of storage available to the core operating system. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Logical_volume_management/ku3Ivefk">Logical volume management</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Fusion_Drive/4KJuQsbd">Fusion Drive</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"OS X Mountain Lion: Core Technologies Overview" (PDF). Apple Inc. June 2012. Retrieved 2013-09-11. <a href="http://movies.apple.com/media/us/osx/2012/docs/OSX_MountainLion_Core_Technologies_Overview.pdf" target="_blank">http://movies.apple.com/media/us/osx/2012/docs/OSX_MountainLion_Core_Technologies_Overview.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"How to Setup a Fusion Drive on a Mac OS X (10.8.2 or Later)". Archived from the original on 2015-04-05. Retrieved 2013-12-03. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150405181312/http://macs.about.com/od/diyguidesprojects/ss/Setting-Up-A-Fusion-Drive-On-Your-Current-Mac_2.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20150405181312/http://macs.about.com/od/diyguidesprojects/ss/Setting-Up-A-Fusion-Drive-On-Your-Current-Mac_2.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>