[G4] defraging a Mac

Alex alist at sprint.ca
Sun Apr 4 06:40:51 PDT 2004


On Saturday, Apr 3, 2004, at 15:46 Canada/Eastern, sr ferenczy wrote:

> [...] actually, according to many, including david shayer in this 
> article:
> http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07254 have pointed out that 
> the OPPOSITE of what you are saying is true. [...]

"[...] Legend has it that the FAT file system was pretty bad about 
fragmenting files [...]"

Legend.

David Shayer's article is interesting, but quite incomplete. (No 
mention of resource forks -- for those more directly interested in 
things under the hood --, or of issues related to video editing, large 
databases, etc.)

f




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