[MacDV] Re: more about the inutility of defragmenting an OS X FS.

[James Asherman]

On Wednesday, December 31, 2003, at 11:25  AM, James Asherman wrote:

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> On Wednesday, December 31, 2003, at 11:17  AM, RichBall wrote:
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>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:24:38 -0500, James Asherman wrote
>>> On Wednesday, December 31, 2003, at 01:11  AM, Peter van der Linden
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So in other words, you have no evidence whatsoever for your 
>>>> "beliefs".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Were you not listening.?
>>>   There is a graphic map that shows that a significant portion of
>>> what you might think is freee space is actually small useless holes
>>> in otherwise crowded areas. and llarge tracts of frree space have
>>> iTunes hanging around like muggers waiting for some video to screw
>>> up. Jim
>>
>> I think the point is: does the presence of scattered storage (as 
>> shown by the
>> graphic map) make any real-world difference in the perfomance of the 
>> applications?
>>
>> Rich
>>
>
> Applications No. Media files yes.
> Also it made available HD space that was otherwise just as I have said 
> , small empty holes in your OS where nothing will ever get stored. And 
> put together alll my free space so that when I do some personal 
> project (usually ends up on the startup drive) my iMovies don't hang 
> stutter or drop frames.
> Jim
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>

Incidentally I also run "cocktail" daily and disk warrior from time to 
time.
My system never crashes.
Jim