[G4] Journaling (was: Constant Catalog Corruption)

[Ryan Fleming]

Well since I had to reformat my drive last night I'll turn Journaling off
too. Do you think it could have been causing my catalogue issue?

On 2/3/04 3:13 PM, "John Baltutis" <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:

> On 02/02/04, Ryan Fleming <ryan at randallflagg.ws> wrote:
>> 
>> Journaling was enabled. What is Journaling anyway?
> 
> "Mac OS X: About File System Journaling"
> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107249>, states that
> journalling "Šenhances computer availability and fault resilience, which is
> especially noteworthy for servers. Journaling protects the integrity of the
> file system on Xserve and other computers using Mac OS X Server in the
> event of an unplanned shutdown or power failure. It also helps to maximize
> the uptime of servers and connected storage devices by expediting repairs
> to the affected volumes when the system restarts."
> 
> INHO, I conclude that it's great for protecting servers from unexpected
> outages and allows automatic restarts, but I consider it overkill for
> single-user, nonnetworked, home machines. Thus, journalling is disabled on
> my machine.
> 

-- 
Ryan
Randall Flagg
www.randallflagg.ws