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To: Swordmaker

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/09/19/1641245/apple-file-system-in-macos-high-sierra-wont-work-with-fusion-drives


19 posted on 09/20/2017 6:56:38 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/09/19/1641245/apple-file-system-in-macos-high-sierra-wont-work-with-fusion-drives

That one happens to be true... but Fusion Drives (a hardware combination of a Flash Drive mated with a real physical Hard Drive that in software thinks it is one contiguous HD) are rare birds, found usually on high-end special order 27" iMacs and the occasional Mac Pro. I have two in my office. They are already hard enough to format properly so I can understand why there is a problem switching to a new file system.

They are even hard to partition or unpartition. I made that mistake unpartitioning mistake once. I won't do it again.

it is possible and Apple had them running in Beta Test, so they will get it going for those of us who have them, but I can understand why they aren't rolling it out with the general distribution. Thanks for the link. It lead to a better discussion article on Arstechnica UK which, unfortunately can't be posted or linked on FR.

23 posted on 09/20/2017 8:26:36 PM PDT by Swordmaker (!This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... bet if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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