Mac OS X 10.3 Defrags Automatically

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Mac OS X 10.3 Defrags Automatically

Posted by pudge on Thursday October 30, 2003 @11:21AM from the hot-character-adaptive-respawning dept.

EverLurking writes "There is a very interesting discussion over at Ars' Mac Forum about how Mac OS X 10.3 has implemented an on-the-fly defragmentation scheme for files on the hard drive. Apparently it uses a method known as 'Hot-File-Adaptive-Clustering' to consolidate fragmented files that are under 20 MB in size as they are accessed. Source code from the Davwin 7.0 Kernel is cited as proof that this is happening."

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but but by falcon5768 · 2003-10-30 11:38 · Score: 3, Funny

I want to see all the pretty colors of blocks moving themselves!!!!!!
ahh shucks.

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Re: Yes But ... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-30 11:58 · Score: 1, Funny

Surpisingly, yes, it can. If you look at line 94 character 7, you can see the comment where it says it can.
Autodefrag. (snort) by speechpoet · 2003-10-30 12:34 · Score: 5, Funny

In my day, we'd crack open the drive on our Mac SE30s, sharpen a magnet on a whetstone, and defrag that sucker by hand.

Kids these days. It's the MTV, ya know - makes 'em lazy.
1. Re:Autodefrag. (snort) by jolshefsky · 2003-10-31 01:49 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  To defrag? Boy were you lucky--my SE hard drive had a crank to start it in the morning.
  Oh wait: that would have been actually useful. (What, nobody else remembers stiction?)
  
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Damn! by csoto · 2003-10-30 14:39 · Score: 4, Funny

That's gonna mess up my UT 2003 ranking! I work hard for those frags! Every one of them!

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Re:In other news.... by drsmithy · 2003-10-30 16:32 · Score: 2, Funny

BTW filename extensions still suck...what was Apple thinking?
Interoperability.
Re:I think it's... by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2003-10-31 04:15 · Score: 2, Funny

...was meant as humor! Obviously increasing background disk activity is gonna suck juice outta yer battery like a Whitehouse intern...

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