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A Journalled iPod
Authored by: carsten on Feb 29, '04 12:56:53PM

Hi,
Yes I'm still running my iPod with journalling turned on, it hasn't caused any problems with iTunes synchronization or mounting it on the desktop.

I'm leaving it on, in case of a power failure when I have the iPod mounted on the desktop while copying files. Fortunately that specific situation hasn't happened to me yet, so I can't definitively give any anecdotal evidence whether it will help in that situation or not.

However journalling of my computer's hard drive noticeably decreases boot time after a power failure, and I haven't had to boot into single-user mode to manually run fsck in ages since enabling journalling! So I believe it does have some value for an iPod too, especially if you do mount your iPod on your desktop.

As someone else pointed out here, if you mount a journalled drive on another computer with an older OS which doesn't support journalling, once you remount it back on the newer machine again the journal will simply be expired (I'm guessing due to any modification time-stamps on the volume) and then the journal will be reset/brought back up to date.



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