Re: [OM] More Memory (OT)

[Chuck Norcutt]

And with only less than 5% of the size of the drive available as free 
space (Bob's actual case) the analogy still holds for Apple as well as 
Winders.  Neither OS can prevent fragmentation with resources that 
small.  Both Apple's HFS Plus and Windows' NTFS files systems are modern 
B-tree, journaling file systems.  NTFS is actually a synthesis of the 
ideas contained in OS/2's HPFS files system and DEC's VAX VMS.

Windows has lots of deficiencies but design of the file system is not 
one of them.

Chuck Norcutt


On 9/27/2010 7:32 PM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
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>> Chuck Norcutt<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
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>> If you've only got 22GB left on a 500GB drive it's also likely that the
>> 22GB available is badly fragmented which means lots of head motion to
>> find and use the available space.  You could defrag it but that might
>> just be a stop gap measure.
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>> An analogous situation might be you and 9 of your buddies are going to a
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>> football game where the stadium has a 500 car parking lot.  You're each
>> going to drive your own cars since you all have to go different
>> directions after the game.  You'd really prefer that everyone be able to
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> Great analogy Chuck !
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> ...Wayne
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> Wayne Harridge
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> http://lrh.structuregraphs.com
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