Journaling - any benefits for a MacBook?
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From: Jolly Roger on 31 May 2010 10:26 In article <310520100333508451%aeiou(a)mostly.invalid>, Mark Conrad <aeiou(a)mostly.invalid> wrote: > I will be glad when "real" 64 bit operation becomes > commonplace on Macs, so that developers will > actually write programs that can utilize 64 bit capability. Yeah? Like what? -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jolly Roger on 31 May 2010 10:26 In article <4c032a6e$0$22856$2c56edd9(a)usenetrocket.com>, John Albert <j.albert(a)snet.net> wrote: > I have never used journaling, ever, across multiple Macs, > drives, and partitions. > > Seems to work just fine. Ah. Then it must be completely useless. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Mark Conrad on 31 May 2010 11:47 In article <jollyroger-9C8D90.09260231052010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > I will be glad when "real" 64 bit operation becomes > > commonplace on Macs, so that developers will > > actually write programs that can utilize 64 bit capability. > > Yeah? Like what? SR for one thing. When my Mac is tied up with 32-bit SR, then I can't do anything else, such as real-time video & music. Essentially SR has "hit the 32-bit wall", rendering my normal multitasking Mac useless for doing any other CPU intensive job. A 64-bit SR app' would change all that, and give me back my normal multitasking capability. 32-bit is like the traffic on the freeway when 3 of the 4 lanes of traffic are shut down by an accident. You can do _anything_, as long as it involves sitting there and fuming because the traffic is not moving. Mark-
From: nospam on 31 May 2010 12:43 In article <310520100333508451%aeiou(a)mostly.invalid>, Mark Conrad <aeiou(a)mostly.invalid> wrote: > I will be glad when "real" 64 bit operation becomes > commonplace on Macs, so that developers will > actually write programs that can utilize 64 bit capability. that happened several years ago. currently, there are plenty of 64 bit apps available, including adobe photoshop cs5, lightroom, and even apple's chess game.
From: isw on 31 May 2010 13:43
In article <4c036576$0$22127$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net>, Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie(a)pixelmemory.us> wrote: > In article <300520100806057875%aeiou(a)mostly.invalid>, > Mark Conrad <aeiou(a)mostly.invalid> wrote: > > > I have been leaving journaling turned off for ages > > on my MacBook Pro, with nothing bad happening. > > > > Is journaling just a placebo? > > > > Mark- > > It assists with recovery from panics and loss of power. I only > recommend it for 10.6 or later. I've seen it mask volume corruption in > 10.5 and earlier that lead to the eventual loss of files. Interesting. How would one go about discovering whether "masked corruption" exists or not? And what could be done about it if it does? Isaac |