MacGroup: Journaling

2004-10-25 Thread Neal Hammon
> > >> I think we all learn from exchanges such as this. Neal >> >>> 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

MacGroup: Journaling

2004-10-25 Thread John Robinson
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 Rob

MacGroup: Journaling

2004-10-25 Thread John Robinson
Hen WOW, thanks, I will have to read this several times to digest. A big answer for a quarter word. Thanks so much for your time and effort. John R. On Oct 25, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > > (I don't know specifics, but this should be close enough, based on > journaling on linu

MacGroup: Journaling

2004-10-25 Thread Lee Larson
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 wr

MacGroup: Journaling

2004-10-25 Thread Henri Yandell
(I don't know specifics, but this should be close enough, based on journaling on linux) Journaling is a file-system feature whereby every change to the file system is kept in a journal. So say you create a new file named BOB, there will be the file named BOB, the pointers that say where BOB is

MacGroup: Journaling

2004-10-25 Thread John Robinson
I have a question that the folks in the real know will have an answer for. When I use TechTools Pro to optimize the hard drive I first have to turn off "Journaling". Once done I then turn it back on. What is Journaling? Also, when I mount a firewire drive the Journaling is turned off by defa