[Ti] utility for defragmenting my internal HD?

Guy Algot guya_gdc at telusplanet.net
Fri Dec 20 13:07:35 PST 2002


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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