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fady · Mar 29, 2003, 06:10 PM

seems crazy but my G4 seems EVEN MORE stable since I turned journaling on...

wow!

F.

sniffer · Mar 29, 2003, 07:17 PM

I know it's weird, but it's likely that my system as well have become more stable. Thought it's hard to measure.

Kenneth · Mar 29, 2003, 07:27 PM

I enabled it using the software, Journalizer, yesterday. I have the miniMon widget showing on the finder, it looks like my pageout is lower or does't rise as much as before.

Looks like it is a good thing.

CatOne · Mar 30, 2003, 10:26 AM

Originally posted by fady:
seems crazy but my G4 seems EVEN MORE stable since I turned journaling on...

wow!

F.

c'mon. How would that be? The fact that no black cats have crossed your doorstep in the last 3 days would an equally valid reason for noting your system has become more stable.

Journaling has ABSOLUTELY NO impact on system stability. What it does is make it less likely your HD will become corrupted if "something bad" happens like loss of power. In that case the machine can figure out what data was cached (in memory but not written to disk) when the system went down and roll it back or forward, without having to result to running fsck which will do the job on its own without hints.

That's it.

fady · Mar 30, 2003, 11:22 AM

well... if there is less chances my HD will get corrupted, isn't my computer more stable?

CatOne · Mar 30, 2003, 06:56 PM

Originally posted by fady:
well... if there is less chances my HD will get corrupted, isn't my computer more stable?

Not by my definition. More "stable" is more resistant to crashing, which again isn't helped by crashing.

Journaling reduces the need to run fsck at startup, if you have abnormal shutdown. It's really more appropriate for servers.

sniffer · Mar 31, 2003, 01:04 AM

Well, I still think the whole thing is wierd, because I enabled jornaling months ago, because of several kernelpanics and GUI freezes. For some reason my system have become better it seems. But I agree the whole think sounds wierd. I haven't done any reformating or used any 3th party disk util or anything else.

juanvaldes · Mar 31, 2003, 01:21 AM

Originally posted by sniffer:
Well, I still think the whole thing is wierd, because I enabled jornaling months ago, because of several kernelpanics and GUI freezes. For some reason my system have become better it seems. But I agree the whole think sounds wierd. I haven't done any reformating or used any 3th party disk util or anything else.

Your imagining it man.

sniffer · Mar 31, 2003, 05:20 AM

..Duh..

sniffer · Mar 31, 2003, 05:34 AM

In my honest opinion it only makes sense to enable journaling if the system gets unstable. Well, my system is quite stable at the moment.
It is just that I feel that it's comfortable to have it enable, "just in case", for now. If you know what I mean.

rjenkinson · Mar 31, 2003, 06:07 AM

is it possible that in the process of enabling journalling bad permissions are repaired or bad settings are otherwise corrected?

-r.