Jim:
You really can't compare journaling and Norton Filesaver. Filesaver was
a total piece of crap. Apple hired the guys who wrote the BeOS drivers.
They wrote the journaling into OS X and, as others have alluded to,
it's a unix thing and designed to be very safe.
... e
On Dec 30, 2003, at
Oh, most definitely safer, because it doesn't muck with allocation
tables and other stupid garbage. Journaling is designed to happen
slightly above the normal Filesystem 'layer', where operations can be
tracked and passed onto the filesystem. A copy of the change record is
stored in a file
