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[ic] Mac OSX viable as a development platform?
Why can't you have your web root on UFS. When the server is running
in production there's not a whole lot of movement of files besides on
the web and database directories. If these are UFS, you could avoid
fragmentation.
Michael
On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 10:36 PM, Robert Brandtjen wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 March 2002 06:12 pm, Michael Stearne wrote:
>> huh? Does HFS+ get fragmented? If so install as UFS.
>>
>> Michael
>
> can't - Apple recommends strongly against it - this was a change
> from the old
> Mac OSX 1.x (Next/openstep derivative - Rhapsody 1.x) to the new
> version,
> which won't run, or barely runs on UFS - in fact, I believe it just
> crashes.
>
> Another problem is that Apple's updates remove all customized system
> level
> config files and return them a pristine state again - no auto back
> up of
> files as in the Linux world.
>
> HFS+ fragments very quickly.
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> Robert Brandtjen
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