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Mac OS X to Get Journaling FS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the journal-this dept.

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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  1. Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As if Mac OS X isnt slow enough as it is now...

  2. NTFS was way ahead of its time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And it's been around for a while, too. Thanks, but no thanks, I'll stick with NTFS.

    The reason it's shipping as off by default is to avoid that fiasco caused by ReiserFS and friends.

  3. Disk Space. by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: -1, Troll


    I use FAT32.

    The diskspace used by the journal file in NTFS and this new filesystem can be put to much better use.

  4. Which is better: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    a) A journalling filesystem

    OR...

    b) Sex with a mare?

  5. Obligatory Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    "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."

    For the n'th time, OS X != UNIX!!!

  6. please post a picture of the mare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    or at least a link.

  7. Re:What about... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hello. You seem like the right person to ask. Would you lick my arse-hole clean? I just took a nasty shit and it is a real mess back there. I figured a fuckwit like yourself would enjoy tounging my stinky hole. Thanks! :)

  8. Is that gay??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I feel more and more inclined to buy an Apple laptop. Is that gay?

    1. Re:Is that gay??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      After I bought my Mac, I discovered my girlfriend was really a man! It made things so much easier, and I didn't even have to break up with him first.

  9. Re:a bit offtopic, but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    OSX will make you a flaming homo, while Linux will just make you a grungy,stinking, bearded fag. Either way, you take cocks up the poop-hole and enjoy sex with other men. With Solaris, I have gotten more hot pussy on accident then the whole MS community has or ever will. Oh, and BeOS? Goat feltchers/animal molesters, pure and simple. BSD users have no sexual orientation since they lack genitals or any sort; they breed via cell-division, like amoeba.

    I hoped this helped you in your choice.

  10. Re:Apple == Microsoft by SubtleNuance · · Score: 1, Troll

    Meet your new boss, same as the old boss.

    for all the users crying OSX rulez, dont forget the Freedom in GNU/Linux has a purpose - to avoid being owned by MS or Apple or Sun or many others who would enslave your computing lives.

    remember that when you think about OSX.

    flaimbait my arse.

  11. Apple Still Sucks by Slicker · · Score: -1, Troll

    So it *will have* a slow, non-integrated journalled filesystem more complete than NTFS. NTFS is arguably on the very edge of being a *journalled* filesystem at all.

    Steve Jobs is another beast, like Bill Gates. Apple gives back just enough to keep OSS advocates from rebelling, but reserves the right to take it all back with BSD-style licensing and a tight grip on its intellectual property.

    Their threats of law suites and such over Aqua like themes has really pissed me off. He's the piper and you who support him are his rats.

    Matthew

  12. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Way to go Apple! Welcome to the 90s!.

    They are 10 years behind NTFS, but we can't all be winners can we?

  13. As your laptop? by d3xt3r · · Score: 1, Troll
    I've been super impressed by OS X having used it as my primary laptop for the last couple weeks.

    Wow Taco, I thought OS X was cool, but seeing that you've actually figured out a way to use an OS as a laptop, you've definitely uncoverd a cool hidden feature on OS X that no else knows about. Maybe that's why Jaguar costs $120 USD, you don't even need a computer to use it!!!

    I'm sorry, mod me down now, but it had to be said. :P

  14. Shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The cult of loony GPL whores goes Appletown. See if I care. What a fucking waste this site is.

  15. Apple has it backwards... by otis+wildflower · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... Panther came first, _THEN_ Jaguar..

    What's next? Lynx?

    DO THE MATH!!

  16. Taco you shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Taco, you're a shit. You created something huge and influential and you use it to talk about Cowboy Bebop and Dragonball Z. You are an uninspired, uninspiring couch potato who floats by on an endless parade of shiny things "to lust after". You are the ultimate consumer, a cardboard personality with vaguely cleverish fanboy affectations. I piss on you and your portable Mac.

  17. Re:You can give me a journaling FS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mac OS X blows the pooch, long live Yellowdog Linux