At 3:25 PM -0500 02/13/2006, Don Hinkle wrote:
How effective/helpful/necessary is "journaling"? I have it turned on and it slows my Mac down. On another Mac I have it turned off and that Mac runs well and fast.
It's a trade-off. Journaling is what provides the great data integrity after crashes. Turn it off - you better keep GREAT backups, because the Disk Repair type tools (Apple's, Disk Warrior, etc) aren't up to par.
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