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Mac OS X 10.3 Defrags Automatically

Posted by pudge on 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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  1. Yes But ... by k3vmo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can it open a beer for me?

  2. Hmm... by Ianoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I also wonder how well Ars OpenForum will hold up to a Slashdotting. They run Infopop Opentopic which is Java backed by Oracle on clusters, so I'd imagine pretty darned well. Then again, it's still dynamic content with a bigass XSL (XML to HTML) transform on the top before it reaches the browser...