[Buck_W]

I am purchasing DiskWarrior and noticed that it will rebuild disks with OS X or higher installed and journaling turned on, but it will deactivate journaling. It then states that you will need to turn journaling back on once DiskWarrior has finished its rebuild.

Can someone translate that into laymen's terms? What is journaling? How is it turned on and off?

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

If you have to ask don't worry about it. It is off by default and Apple really only wants you to turn it on if you use OSX server.

In other words, don't worry about it.

[Sarc]

this has been discussed many times, do a search on the forums to find many different asnwers with pros and cons.

[t_hah]

I had the same question and did some research. Some people think that Journaling is not good on separate partitions, which I have (3 of them). Some think it is needed only for servers, and not for consumer computers. I went ahead still and enabled Journaling on all three partitions. It is not noticably faster, or slower. It seems to work just the way it did before. Of course first I ran fsck on all three partitions.


I hope that this helps,


t

[bradoesch]

I tried journaling one day and it caused kernel panics after 5 minutes of use. Once I turned it off things went back to normal.
BTW, if you haven't found how to turn journaling on yet, you type

Code:
sudo enableJournal "partition name"

To enable journaling on your OS X partition, then "partition name" is replaced by "/", and other partition are used by "/volumes/partition name".