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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."
Slashdot wouldn't be Slashdot without an un-backed-up dig at Microsoft, would it? Come on people, there's enough wrong with Microsoft that has evidence to back it up without cheap, snide shots like that.
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Uh-huh... Last time I checked filesystems were also operatining system components. Often these components might be referred to as drivers. And one might say that the HFS+ driver has a defrag feature. And thus one might say that the defrag is a feature of the filesystem.
Do you actually work with file systems or do you just sit around pushing obscure semantics in an attempt to sound smart?
Is this the article that is supposed to make me feel better about not having defrag in OS X?
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Ah, liberal tolerance rears its head again.
I am intolerant of corrupt, stupid, anti-democratic presidents who have done more to harm the nation than to help it. Ah, another conservacliche. What's next? A rant about Jesse Jackson? Perhaps something about the libruhl media? Or maybe you'll even manage to slip in the good ol' "libruhls is lazy socialist hippies!"
(By the way, were you out protesting the "stupid fucking war" in Serbia, or are Democrats allowed to invade sovereign nations who pose no external threat?)
80% of my bitch is about the incompetence in which this war has been run. The Serbian war had ZERO American casualties. None. Nada. We were in, out, and for the most part done. But this arrogant fuck of a president and his controllers have this idealistic notion of how easy it would be to install a new government, and they have done NOTHING but fuck it up. To take one example, the looting immediately after the war -- that is costing the American people BILLIONS of dollars -- could have easily been prevented if Uncle Don had gotten his head out of his ass and listened to the experts that said we'd need tens of thousands of more troops in country. But no, he didn't. Instead they ridiculed that general, demoted him, and had him reassigned. Guess what. He was right. Rummy fucked up. AGAIN. And both our troops and the people of Iraq are still paying the price.
Is it just barely possible that maybe he really did believe that, and he was mistaken? Intelligence agencies have been known to make mistakes before. Never mind, I forgot he's from Texas and worked in the oil industry so he's obviously made a pact with Satan.
But of course. Nothing is his responsibility, is it? He never fucks up, and whenever there is a fuckup it's not his fault, it's someone elses. Intelligence failures. Failures of subordinates. An isolated incident. It wasn't really treason. Don't you get tired of having to find excuses for this guy?
And by the way: I'm fifth generation Texan.
It's amusing watching you guys get progressively more unhinged.
You ain't seen nothin' yet, babycakes.