Arc v' October 15, 2002

If this turns out to be true, it will be very interesting: Journaling File System Layer to appear in Mac OS X 10.2.2.

The odd thing is that this is appearing on a dot-dot release. Was this a feature that was meant for 10.2.0 but didn't make the cut? Note that Journaling, which adds a 10-15% performance hit to the operating system, is turned off by default.

Of real interest - Apple did bring in Dominic Giampaolo a while ago. Giampaolo wrote BeOS's journaled BFS file system. With luck, more BFS features will find their way into Mac OS X, allowing OS X to beat Microsoft's Longhorn/Yukon projects to market.

Milo Shell, my grandfather who helped raised me as a baby when my mother died, passed away peacefully during the night.

My Grandfather, Milo L. Shell, a pacific theater World War II veteran (seen here at my cousin's wedding in August) is dying. He's basically in a morphine coma as his body shuts down from cancers - much more than we knew about. We almost lost him a couple of years ago to pancreatic problems, which was one of the things that prompted me to move back home - I knew it was going to be a time to be closer to family. We're a small one - the grandkids are me, my two younger brothers, and my cousin (his only granddaughter). It was marvelous that he was able to be there to give her away at their wedding.