[stuffedmonkey]

I had briefly tried turning journaling on my 20 gig hd, but later finding that diskwarrior did not support it, turned it back off. I recently bought an 80 gig Western Digital to be my main drive, and since there is an OS X native diskwarrior shipping soon, I wanted to ask you guys opinion - Is journaling worth it? Does it really make a difference in preventing drive corruption in its current impliementation? Right now I keep all my freelance work on my 80 gig - and while I do do nightly backups, I never want to lose 3/4ths of a day's work to some sort of b-tree wierdness

Your opinions are appreciated!

-stuffedm

[coolmacdude]

Right now Journaling doesn't work too well except on OS X Server. There is something like a 15% performance hit if you turn it on in a client system.

[mitchell_pgh]

I enabled journaling on my home computer and have never had and issue. I also didn't notice a 15% hit. I have yet to have a kernel panic, so I really can't say much either way.

I didn't enable journaling on my work computer and have had one kernel panic that I was able to recover from without loss of data.

Who knows...

[Don Pickett]

Originally posted by coolmacdude:
Right now Journaling doesn't work too well except on OS X Server. There is something like a 15% performance hit if you turn it on in a client system.

I have found no performance hit, and I like the extra protection it allows.

[Fallout]

Originally posted by Don Pickett:
I have found no performance hit, and I like the extra protection it allows.

Same here.

[Arkham_c]

I turned it on on my iBook. I don't notice a difference.

Know that the 15% hit is only for writes -- reads are the same speed as always.

Personally, I'd recommend it.