[Ti] Journeling.

[Sambouka]

what does indexing do when you click on file info?

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On Aug 5, 2004, at 7:53 PM, silvo conticello wrote:

> I think that  journaling in Panther includes also some file 
> defragmentation on the fly. Or am I mistaken?
> Silvo
>
> On 5 Aug 2004, at 16:43, David DelMonte wrote:
>
>> On Aug 5, 2004, at 6:37 PM, Glenn L. Austin wrote:
>>
>>> on 8/5/04 3:02 AM, David DelMonte at ddelmonte at mac.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all.
>>>>
>>>> What does disk journalling provide?
>>>
>>> Basically, a journalled file system provides an additional, smaller
>>> operation to track changes made to the file system before the actual
>>> operation is executed. After the operation is complete, the journal 
>>> entry is
>>> marked as complete.  Basically, the OS keeps track of what it's 
>>> doing, kind
>>> of "going to do this," "doing this," "done with this."
>>>
>>> What it means to you is that if your computer crashes at some point, 
>>> then
>>> restarting the computer is much faster because all that needs to be 
>>> done to
>>> make the disk consistent is to play back the journal entries and 
>>> execute the
>>> operations.
>>>
>>>> What resources does it cost?
>>>
>>> Just some disk space and cost of some disk performance when writing.
>>>
> Silvo Conticello
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