Measuring Fragmentation in HFS+

keyblob8K writes "Amit Singh takes a look at fragmentation in HFS+. The author provides numbers from his experiments on several HFS+ disks, and more interestingly he also provides the program he developed for this purpose. From his own limited testing, Apple's filesystem seems pretty solid in the fragmentation avoidance department. I gave hfsdebug a whirl on my 8-month-old iMac and the disk seems to be in good shape. I don't have much idea about ext2/3 or reiser, but I know that my NTFS disks are way more fragmented than this after similar amount of use."

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This is Unix...

[deutschemonte]

I know this!

Anonymous

[Anonymous Coward]

STOP! Don't run it! It's a trojan horse. You'll be sorry!

PS - I do not work for Microsoft, so you can believe whatever I say.

Give it a rest

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm no MS fan, but the latest release of NTFS is pretty solid. The only time I've ever had a problem is with a failing HD, but even then, NTFS was able to recover enough that I could save the data to a new disk.

Re:File allocation Table

[SirChris]

why is everyone marking this flamebait and troll i was asking a serious question. does anyone have an answer?

Re:Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you mean "antidote" and "antidotes." "Anecdote" is not a word.

Re:Anonymous Moron

[Anonymous Coward]

What kind of a word is "anecdote" anyway? Words can't have a 'c' and 'd' right next to each other like that. It's simply unpronounceable.

Offtopic

[toupsie]

Saddam was stripped of his WMD before the war, and he provided no support to al Qaeda.

What?. I think you need to change your signature. If there are no WMD, then there could not have been a binary chemical artillery shell filled with nearly a gallon of Sarin in Iraq. This was not an old shell either. Iraq didn't have binary chemical capabilities before the first Gulf War.

Re:Offtopic

[revscat]

This was not an old shell either. Iraq didn't have binary chemical capabilities before the first Gulf War.

Is that what Hannity is parroting this week? Or maybe Fox News? Do tell, do you manage to find time to fit the "Kerry is boring" meme in, too? Or was that last weeks talking point? Now that I think about it, I think this week's meme is "the libruhl media isn't spending enough time on the Berg murder." Sorry, with all the lies it's hard to keep it all straight.

Tell ya what: FOAD. Bush lied, Bush continues to lie, and our country is far, FAR more in danger now than when we started this stupid fucking war. Bush said he was 100% certain that Saddam had massive stores of WMD and a nuclear program. That was a fucking lie.

Oh, but of course, he never ACTUALLY said it. He just IMPLIED it, which makes it all ok, doesn't it? It was a failure of intelligence, which means it ain't his fault! Nothing is his fault! And I mean shit, who needs morals when you're having to deal with them dirty hippie commie faggot libruhls and that libruhl media?

Re:Offtopic

[Sj0]

WHAT?! You'd better go tell that to Hans Blix, because that cheeky bastard is going around telling everyone that it's probably an old shell from pre-gulf war Iraq.

Just run up to the UN, and go:

"Quickly! I'm toupsie from slashdot! Hans Blix may have dedicated ten years of his life to hunting these weapons, but I'm here to tell you that he doesn't know JACK! This was NOT an old shell!"

and they'll go "Wow! Thanks for this vital information! We have to ask you though, and this is just a formality, you understand, what your qualifications to be making this statement are -- the press is going to want to know. Have you spent time in Iraq?"

"well, no..."

"OK, have you been keeping up to date on the 900 page reports by the weapons inspectors over the past 10 years?"

"well no..."

"well, what is it which makes you qualified to make such a declaration?"

"well, I did stay at a holiday inn express last night!"

Bring a video camera. I want to see it when you get laughed out of the building.

Re:Offtopic

[Goo.cc]

There could be lots of reasons for this but I wouldn't trust US intelligence to provide the answer. In any case, we "really" attacked to "liberate" Iraq from a dictator. It will be interesting to see if we are as willing to liberate China or North Korea; countries with an actual military.

Re:Offtopic

[Arctic Fox]

Well, at this time, China isn't really a problem. They're pretty sane. MAD somewhat applies between the US and China. You have a point about NorK. However, Saddam had the world's 4th largest army in 1991. But he didn't have nukes either....

Re:Huh?

[Sj0]

Browser statistics and OS statistics are two different things. For one thing, mozilla for example is 99.9% compatible with anything on the web, which is just as good as any given version of IE, seeing as Microsoft has this horrible habit of breaking webpages with browser revisions(I worked for a school board in 2k, and IE6SP2 broke the Cisco Networking Academies curriculum. You can imagine our suprise when a few of the new labs we set up during the summer called up the helpdesk with a frantic "what the hell is wrong with our cisco??". )

with integrated tabbed browsing, popup blocking, spyware invunerability, greater speed and many other great features, in my view(and I'm not alone -- Many people I've met, after using mozilla or firebird for a week, swore by it. It's all we use in my household, and that's not by MY decision. :) ) the only people who still use IE are those who haven't gotten around to switching for whatever reason, or don't know about it yet.