Cloning via Carbon Copy Cloner may disable journaling

Sep 20, '06 07:30:05AM

Contributed by: kevinneal

I've recently had problems with my Xserve crashing and then failing to re-start; usually it seemed like some drive damage had occurred to prevent users from logging in. I'd always thought journaling was meant to reduce this kind of situation.

Following the crashes, I've always had to restore from a disk image, but that doesn't get to the root of the problem. So after some digging around, I noticed in Disk Utility that the Enable Journaling icon was active -- it was the same for any disk that had been cloned (using CCC) and restored (using Disk Utility).

I don't know if this is the default behavior, but it's definitely worth checking out if you've ever cloned and restored.

[robg adds: I don't use CCC, so I can't easily confirm this one -- comments, please? If it's not true, I'll remove it...]

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