[G4] defraging a Mac

[sr ferenczy]

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On Apr 3, 2004, at 10:40 AM, Alex wrote:

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> On Friday, Apr 2, 2004, at 21:34 Canada/Eastern, Shaene wrote:
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> As to disk fragmentation, it predates both Mac and Win. It's 
> essentially a file system issue,...

> ...HFS+, the current native Mac OS, is even slightly more susceptible 
> than HFS to fragmentation, again, a side-effect of its more 
> sophisticated management of allocation blocks.
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> f


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. it 
seems the windows FAT file systems is/has been much much more 
susceptible to file fragmentation, and that the HFS+ file system (came 
out with os 9??) was much much better than other file systems.


sandor