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

RichBall rgb at ellerbach.com
Wed Dec 31 08:17:51 PST 2003


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



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