[Ti] Some GOOD Panther features...

[Kynan Shook]

It's on the same topic on the board I gave the link to.  Search for  
"clustering," and the last found result on the page gives a pretty good  
description of how it works, though there are more details (and  
corrections) before and after.
<http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page? 
a=tpc&s=50009562&f=8300945231&m=9900929295>


Justin R. Miller <incanus at codesorcery.net> writes:
> 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?