You really can't compare journaling and Norton Filesaver. Filesaver was a total piece of crap. Apple hired the guys who wrote the BeOS drivers. They wrote the journaling into OS X and, as others have alluded to, it's a unix thing and designed to be very safe.
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On Dec 30, 2003, at 1:13 AM, James G (Jim) Hardwick wrote:
20031230re>> Now I use journalling and reorganize disks with Carbon Copy Cloner and-------external FW drive. Pretty smooth, fast and reliable.
Can you explain in detail how you do this and what it is?
Journalling file system is default on boot volume in Panther. It is a
filesystem that keeps track of changes on the volume and this way it
recovers quicker from crashes (I did not have any yet so I keep my fingers
crossed).
I'm still an OS 9.2.1 user, but journalling sounds a lot like Norton Filesaver. It too has some mechanism, noted for its bugs, for keeping track of file changes to recover from a crash. From what I hear it sometimes makes its own music of sorts.
I lost a PC hard drive (in the data sense) to a Norton 3.x bug (that's pc version 3.x) about 1989. After spending many dollars on the phone with their illustrious tech support over a 2 week period, I was finally told they would send me an update for my Norton Disk Doctor that would not eat my HD's FAT (a Priam, anyone remember them?), as, evidently, the version I had was doing. Turns out they had known of this problem specifically with Priam drives for some time. Apparently Priams had some special sort of rom coded on a certain part of the drive not usually accessed after the drive left the factory.
I'm not sure anyone said the words, "I'm sorry", either.
BTW, that HD, my first, cost me over $900. 60 MB, a whopper that one. But coming off of the shoe indentation of 360 kb then 1 MB floppies in my IBM PC-AT, it seemed like Endless Caverns.
I hope journalling is safer.
Jim
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