Greeting from 10.2.2
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The Mac OS 10.2.2 update (KBase article 107140) was released last night. Software Update ought to see it, and there are two standalone updaters available.
The 24 MB version which you can grab from this page updates 10.2.1 to 10.2.2. The 30 MB version listed here is a “combo” updater which will take a machine from 10.2 to 10.2.2.
I ran the combo version on the Pismo (previously 10.2.1) and all went well. Things seem, dare I say it, snappier. One of the bigger deals of this update is supposedly that the file system now handles journaling (no clear details as yet). Daniel Steffen posts a great tip in this MacOSXHints story about how to get access to the journaling switch via Disk Uitility (by default this happens only on OS X Server; OS X ‘client’ requires a trip to the terminal – as does this tip, but things get easier after that). This thread on MacAch covers the update and journaling in some detail.
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Posted to Computers • 2002.11.12 (Tue) • 23:45
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Posted by brian 2002.11.14, 01:44
i enabled journaling on both my iBook and my PowerMac at first ( hey, jump in feet first! ) and i noticed horrid delays in photoshop. no other apps had quite the constant disk access and so they seemed ok, but in photoshop, it was unbearable. i quickly “disableJournal” ‘ed.
ymmv.
Posted by Jonas 2002.11.14, 02:14
I enabled journaling on my G4 yesterday, and have been doing quite a bit of work today in PS. I haven’t experienced the delays you talk about, and it might have something to do with my scratch disk being on another partition which is not journaled. I don’t know, but it might be a good idea to have your PS scratch disk on a non-journaled partition.
Posted by jh 2002.11.14, 09:05
Sounds like good advice. Some of the posts I’ve been reading about journaling were confused about where the speed hit would occur (i.e., system-wide versus disk-intensive). You should only notice any impact (if there’s any impact) during disk-intensive tasks as the journal is updated before any changes are written to disk.
Photoshop certainly qualifies as a disk-intensive app, so scratching to non-journaled disks would seem to be a good idea.
I haven’t given things a good workout here so can’t comment in detail, but I’m not seeing any impact at all at this point.
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