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Coriolis Systems
Company blog · coriolis-systems.com/blogsystemsprogramming
Coriolis Systems is the company blog at coriolis-systems.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
This is the product site for iDefrag, a macOS disk defragmentation utility. HN comments discuss its use for defragmenting spinning drives and its support being withdrawn after APFS appeared.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
One of my long-time favourite macOS applications -- iDefrag -- had support withdrawn shortly after APFS appeared. Reasons cited were lack of an APFS spec and increased System Integrity Protection. I fear this is too little, too late to have iDefrag make a comeback. I understand defragmenting an SSD typically does more harm than good [edit: and I only defrag spinning drives), but nothing touched it for effectiveness…
Comment linking /blog/2017/9/what-works-macos-1013-high-sierra-what-problems-ex
on “Apple File System Reference [pdf]”Submitted Closing Down as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> couldn't find a contiguous 30gb slot on my 80gb free drive I had the same problem last year and I used iDefrag to solve it. http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php
Comment linking /iDefrag.php
on “Windows 8 Plans Leaked: Numerous Details Revealed”Submitted Coriolis Systems was a software company that supplied Mac utility software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DigiNotar certificate security issue as a story · 1 points
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