Sleepimage and swap files on Intel Macs - separate partition, fragmentation, and why necessary?, HFS+ generally

[Ashley Aitken]

On 08/06/2007, at 9:58 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> the Imagefile is there so that the machine can be TURNED OFF in  
> sleep mode and the contents of RAM restored.  This is called Safe- 
> sleep and it is insanely cool.

I'm not sure it is "insanely cool" - I believe it's been the default  
in Windows (hibernate) since they had their "sleep" mode.  MacOSX's  
Risky-sleep was way cooler (because it was faster) in my opinion.

But that's not important.  The question I have is:  is Safe-sleep now  
the default on Intel machines?  Or does it do a Risky-sleep and Safe- 
sleep at the same time (just in-case the battery goes dead)?

Cheers,
Ashley.

> Nope.  There really aren't fragmentation issues in OS X period.

PS  Isn't that "period" a little redundant?

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