10.2.2 Is Coming

stoffel writes "According to this article on spymac retailers just received the 10.2.2 update to Mac OS X, which features an updated file system and improvements to FTP, NFS, and Print Services ... too bad you can't set the software update utility to check every minute."

Journal what?

[bckspc]

More about the journaling file system:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,634720,00.asp [eweek.com]

I Sure Hope They Fixed WINS

[good soldier svejk]

Apple claims CIFS compatibility, but they horribly broke WINS in their Samba implementation. If you add a WINS server you can't browse across subnets. All you can see is the WINS server itself. If you remove WINS you can browse your local subnet normally.

For some reason, I seem to be the only person who cares about this. I have never seen it mentioned and nobody responds when I post about it. My local Apple Tech rep didn't even know aout it. I did find it documented in this technote. [apple.com]

Re:Raid 5, the missing feature

[babbage]

Well apple does not yet support partitioning a disk with different File systems.

FYI, I was running 10.0 on an iMac which I had split into multiple partitions, of which one was UFS and the others were HFS+. This was all with standard tools -- the installer let me do it so I just did it. I've since switched to all HFS+, but I don't see why Apple would have removed the functionality.

So -- have you actually tried it or are you just spouting off?

Re:Raid 5, the missing feature

[goombah99]

Contrary to the two preceeding reply, You CANNOT mix UFS and HFS+ partitions on the same raid drive set using apple tools. The fools who said you could did not actually try to do this else thay would know.

The confusion undoubtedly comes from the fact that you can mix a UFS and HFS+ partition on a single non-raid drive. But you CANNOT DO IT ON A RAID 1 System. end of story. Note this is a limitation of the apple tools not the RAID system.

Dont you just love the way the fools above insiunuate that the poster is an idiot "mouthing off". Sheesh, what dorks.

Re:and how much does this "Service Pack" cost?

[Into The White]

Service packs? You obviously don't use a Mac very often, do you? Apple releases "software updates" that follow a logical numbering system.

a few comments

[moosesocks]

This looks like a worthwile release (unfortunately, I still don't have the cash to afford jaguar, so I am thus excluded from this update)

FTP: I suppose this means that apple will be intergraiting FTP into the finder gui, and possibly improving the built-in FTP server. On a side note: why can't we all use FTP for file sharing with some common locator/naming service... FTP seems to be the only file sharing protocol properly implimented into every major OS. SMB is a great protocol, but has lots of room for improvement.

NFS: Who uses THAT? Honestly, people... SMB is much more widely supported, no matter how poorly implemented.

Print Services - Apple needs more of a unified printer driver architecture similar to the one used in windows. The one in OSX now is good, but not quite there yet.

File system - Journaling FS is niice, even though HFS+ already maintains data integrity quite well without a journal.

All in all, this one looks like a winner. Had Jaguar included these enhancements to begin with, chaces are that apple would have sold many more copies (although I admire apple's policy of incremental updates that add functionality, as well as fixing bugs. No other OS offers that. Not linux, not windows, nothing.)