[Ti] Some GOOD Panther features...

[Justin R. Miller]

On Oct 31, 2003, at 5:44 PM, Kynan Shook wrote:

> Anyway, two cool new features of Panther, both are only applicable to 
> Journaled HFS+; one is disk defragmentation.  Whenever you open a 
> file, if it is under 20 MB, and has more than 8 fragments, it will be 
> copied to another contiguous location on the disk.  This should help 
> improve disk access speeds.  Another speed feature is that Panther 
> will move the most frequently used files to the fastest part of your 
> hard drive, after sampling how often files are used for about 2.5 
> days.  This only applies to small or moderately sized files, and is 
> limited to only a few megabytes, but it will help many things, I'm 
> sure.

Very cool -- where can I read more about this?

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