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

[James Asherman]

On Wednesday, December 31, 2003, at 11:17  AM, RichBall wrote:

> 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