Lee, Thanks for your help, it sounds to me like I would NOT need journaling on the firewire as it is used as a backup only. This is what I needed to know, thus you and Hen have educated many of us.
John R. On Oct 25, 2004, at 1:59 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Oct 25, 2004, at 1:26 PM, John Robinson asked: > >> What is Journaling? > > When journaling is turned on, a special file, called a journal (Hence > "journaling".) is created to track all transactions that change data > on the disk. The journal file is set up in such a way that data not > yet properly written to the disk can quickly be recovered or corrected > when something like a power failure occurs. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be October 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be October 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>