![]() Speaking for Mac OS X specifically HFS+ does a decent enough job of trying to keep things from being fragmented compared to older systems but it still happens just not on the same scale. All filesystems will fragment but newer ones are more resistant to fragmenting so badly. Useful in certain circumstances but it's less of an issue than it was with FAT or regular HFS. ![]() ![]() My answer on Server fault fits here as well : I suggest also taking a look at Server Fault's answers as well: Mac OS X 10.2 and later includes delayed allocation for Mac OS Xįragmentation was often caused by continually appending data to existingĪggressive read-ahead and write-behind caching means that minor Hard disk capacity is generally much greater now than a few years ago. I think the best answer for this comes straight from this apple support KB
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