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derefr on May 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: 3x faster linux boot with e4rat

Is this similar to OSX's Hot File Adaptive Clustering, then?

obtu on May 7, 2012 [–]

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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