Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 29th Apr 2006 12:35 UTC
Mac OS X Apparantly, Apple is interested in porting Sun Solaris' ZFS to Mac OS X. From the zfs-discuss mailinglist: "Chris Emura, the Filesystem Development Manager within Apple's CoreOS organization is interested in porting ZFS to OS X. For more information, please e-mail him directly at [email address]. Speaking for the zfs team (at Sun), this is great news and we fully support the effort."
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RE[5]: Great news
by elsewhere on Sat 29th Apr 2006 16:33 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Great news"
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Member since:
2005-07-13

God I hate NTFS and its defragging problem. Try a little experiment. Defrag your computer and I mean offline and online defrag. Then reboot, you will see your computer boot fast in less than 20 seconds....well mine does anyway....reboot 3-4 more times and watch your boot times grow longer and longer as the disk gets more fragmented because of all the I/O that is being done. That is the single biggest problem I have....is fragmentation with NTFS.

I'm going totally OT here, but from my past experience with 2K/XP, wiping the swap and then setting it to a fixed size after a defrag helps a lot with this problem. Windows will create the swap in a contiguous space so it doesn't become fragmented, helps with a quicker bootup and slightly better performance overall.

But you're right, defragging ntfs is a PITA.

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RE[6]: Great news
by cfrankb on Sat 29th Apr 2006 21:49 in reply to "RE[5]: Great news"
cfrankb Member since:
2006-01-03

Regarding a fixed swap to prevent disk slowing due to fragmentation and/or resizing, for those with 2GB of RAM fix the swap size at 0.

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RE[7]: Great news
by Tom K on Sun 30th Apr 2006 00:05 in reply to "RE[6]: Great news"
Tom K Member since:
2005-07-06

Completely disabling swap is not recommended in Windows. I've never personally tried it on my box with 2 GB of RAM, but I've heard that some programs cease to function when no page file is available.

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