Mac OS X to Get Journaling FS

overunderunderdone writes "According to eWeek, Apple Computer is planning to introduce a new journaling file system code-named 'Elvis' with the 10.2.2 release. Supposedly it will run on top of HFS+ and will be turned off by default. Though it will cost you 10% to 15% performance penalty the article says it is more extensive than NTFS and is on par with BeOS's 64-bit journaling file system. Not surprising since it is being developed by the same person - Dominic Giampaolo." I've been super impressed by OS X having used it as my primary laptop for the last couple weeks. It really is a great unix box- and this is one of the important missing puzzle pieces.

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Glad to see new features for a change

[jbarket]

Seems like lately Apple has been hellbent on increasing performance and reintegrating features from 9. Not that I'm complaining, 10.2.1 runs like a dream on my TiBook. Glad to see things moving forward.

Re:Whoops! I thought it said on by default.

[Teancom]

I think this is a great time to point out that people should be very careful about blindly trusting what other people say when it comes to performance issues and what is "creeper slow" vs. "works for me!". Case in point: my laptop is the original toilet-bowl iBook. That is, g3-300, bumped to 160Megs of RAM, 6 gig harddrive, ati rage video. For a long time, I didn't install OSX because of people saying that it was unusable with anything less than a G4. Then, 10.1 rolled out, and I tried it, and it was slow, but usable (I would develop on it, if I wasn't at home or work).

Since 10.2, I actually prefer using my laptop w/OSX to my desktop athlon 750 w/512 Megs, G450, and KDE 3.0.4. I can run terminal (w/screen), omniweb (3 windows), Project Builder, ssh-agent, java-browse (that's not the right name, whatever tool is used to browse java class docs), and iTunes, "fast enough". That is, I can switch back and forth between apps without delay, scrolling is normal, and iTunes doesn't skip. I don't really know what else to ask for... Oh, and divx movies play full-screen just fine using quicktime, but java compiles could definitely do with a speedup. And I don't play games (Jewel Toy doesn't count).

Having said all that, I'm not discounting Boomer's experience. I have no doubt that his G3 was not fast enough for his needs under OSX. But if he had different needs (or expectations!) it would have worked just fine. So if someone out there is waffling between going with OSX or not, depending entirely on the reputation that it has for being slow, I can only suggest tring it for yourself (edonkey2k is great!) and if it is worth it, buy it. It almost goes without saying that if it isn't worth it, you should delete it...