[Ti] utility for defragmenting my internal HAD?

Brett V. Gaspers bgaspers at alum.mit.edu
Fri Dec 20 16:09:50 PST 2002


Um...hate to say the emperor is wearing no clothes here, but isn't 
the filesystem used by OSX AND OS9 HFS+? And this is the same 
filesystem we've been using for several years?

Or are you talking about UFS? (which very few Mac users are or should be using)

Brett


>Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:07:35 -0700
>Subject: Re: [Ti] utility for defragmenting my internal HD?
>From: Guy Algot <guya_gdc at telusplanet.net>
>Message-ID: <BA28D4A7.C2AF%guya_gdc at telusplanet.net>
>
>On 12/20/02 12:12 PM, "Mark C. Langston" <mark at bitshift.org> wrote:
>
>>  Your applications are displaying the data accurately.
>>  What they're saying is this:  The filesystem that OS X uses is different
>>  than that used by OS 9, or Windows.  It's derived -- as is almost every
>>  other Unix filesystem -- from Kirk McKusik's Berkeley Fast Filesystem
>>  (BFFS).  This type of filesystem was designed to handle fragmentation
>>  well instead of poorly.
>
>Mark,
>
>Thanks for the excellent explanation!
>
>Later,
>Guy



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