[Bluebomber21XX]

I have a few questions about File System Journaling. It is on by default in OS X 10.3. What are the benefits of having this turned on?

Will my system be faster if I turn this off? If it can be, how do I go about it?

Thanks if you can help.

[Gul Banana]

In the event of system crashes, you are less likely to lose data and won't have to face long restarts or run disk utilities.

A little bit, occasionally. Mainly, copying or saving a lot of files could be 1-10% faster.

To turn it off, open Disk Utility, select the hard drive to disable it on, and select Disable Journal in the file menu.

[eevyl]

With journaling activated under Panther, you get automatic file defragmentation (for files under 20 MB in size) and "hot-files" optimization that puts the most used files (small size) in the fastest zone of the hard disk or "hot band".