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Comment by derefr | Hacker News Reader
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derefr
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Is this similar to OSX's Hot File Adaptive Clustering, then?
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obtu
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The OSX feature apparently notices files which are slowly appended to (downloads) and defragments them. It does not reallocate a set of files (such as the ones touched at boot) to be adjacent on disk, which is what e4rat does.
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