Mac OS X 10.2.2 Update Available 518
Fork420 writes "Apple has released the 10.2.2 update. According to Apple: The 10.2.2 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications and technologies: Address Book, iChat, IP Firewall, Mail, Print Center, Rendezvous, Sherlock and Windows file service discovery. The update also includes the updated services previously delivered in Security Update 2002-09-20.
For detailed information on this Update, please visit http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n107140 (when this story was posted, this link was not yet working)
Enjoy..."
Journaling File System (Score:5, Informative)
Hopefully they fix... (Score:5, Informative)
10.2.2 Changes (Score:5, Informative)
Digital Hub and Peripheral Device Enhancements
Networking and Modem Enhancements
Address Book and Mail Enhancements
Application Enhancements
Other Enhancements
Combo Update Available (Score:5, Informative)
It's there, just hidden (Score:5, Informative)
sudo diskutil enableJournal
To view the options just type 'diskutil'
NTFS isn't true journaling (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Big fan of OSX, but... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:One Problem: (Score:3, Informative)
Standard practice nowadays is to use RAID 0 and RAID 1 together instead of using RAID 5. The data protection is better, and the performance is too. You should make mirror sets, and then stripe them rather than the other way around. That way your system can keep running at full speed if any single disk breaks. The other thing you may consider (I don't know if this is possible under OSX, but it should be) Is to RAID your partitions instead of partitioning your RAID. This should overcome your filesystem issue.
With the low cost of storage these days, RAID 5 is basically obsolete. Spend the extra few gigabytes, and use RAID 0+1
How to enable journaling (simple howto) (Score:4, Informative)
diskutil
You'll get a list of diskutil options, two of them are "enableJounal" and "disableJournal".
Happy hunting
-todd
Re:NTFS isn't true journaling (Score:3, Informative)
Re:It's there, just hidden (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Hopefully they fix... (Score:3, Informative)
[apple.com]
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=
Re:Link wasn't working... (Score:2, Informative)
Just do an 'update now'
Have fun...
Re:Mac OSX (Score:5, Informative)
Because the right-click context menu is a windows-ism, and as such, people who have never used windows don't care. In fact, if you gave them another button they wouldn't use it, much like how windows users don't care they are missing the ever-so-useful middle button.
People who do care plug any old multi-button USB mouse into their mac and forget about it.
Re:Improved Find function? (Score:5, Informative)
Voila, you can search invisible files. All this update does is set the default search to visible files only, as it should be.
I hope they fixed WINS (Score:2, Informative)
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:Hopefully they fix... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:One Problem: (Score:2, Informative)
Right-Clicking (Score:3, Informative)
Of course Apple only includes a 1-button mouse with their systems, but 2-button optical mice are so cheap that it's just not worth complaining about.
Odd that Apple doesn't sell their own 2-button mouse, though. It's almost as if Apple is trying to help hardware manufacturers get business from Mac users. What could be the advantage of that?
here. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:One Problem: (Score:4, Informative)
Well I don't know of which support exactly you are speaking of, but I've been running 2 HFS+ partitions and 1 UFS partition on my iMac (with a single 40GB disk) since 10.0.3 (client) and continue to do so until now (10.2.2).
And in case you forgot to setup the FS types correctly when partitioning, here's the hint how to do it afterwards. You cannot normaly just select "Erase disk" and put a different FS type on it. It will offer only the same type as the partition already has. BUT if you reboot with an OS X install CD and launch Disk Utility, you will be able to change the format of the partition without touching the rest of the disk.
RAID (Score:5, Informative)
What to do, what to do? /me strokes beard. Hey! How about using "A HARDWARE RAID!"
Why waste your CPU cycles calculating stuff when you can have a dedicated processor taking care of your storage issues?
Call your nearby raid vendor and get a box in. It speaks SCSI, it gives you lots of bonuses. Me? For high performance RAID at a decent price (too much for hobbyists and home users, don't waste your time), try these guys [baydel.com]. Just a personal favorite, I'm not part of their company, just a customer.
Why hardware RAID? When your MoBo/CPU/Disk dies and you can't get that software RAID reconfigured, you unplug the hardware RAID, plug it into a new machine and just go.
When you want real speed, those baydel guys have a screaming, mirrored RAM cache so you get to write at 160MB/s.
Jeez, you put all that money into your server and network connections and want to cheap out by using slow IDE disks and your CPU to do all the work?
HFS+? Yeah, I still have it for my Mac Classic II on an 80MB drive.
THanks, I'll use FFS with softupdates or ReiserFS (or XFS mmmmmm) on my real volumes.
For those of you that can't wait to install... (Score:5, Informative)
%su
password:<enter password>
%softwareupdate 3404
(software update progress occurs)
%reboot
You are now updated to 10.2.2
not giving anything back? (Score:3, Informative)
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/02/0
Re:10.2.2 - man page killer? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Thank you. (Score:1, Informative)
Plays: S/VCD, Mpeg, DiVX
Also, for VCD authoring in OSX, checkout:
Toast (burns
VCD Builder (still pics and Mpegs to VCD)
MissingMediaBurner (SVCD)
Re:10.2.2 Changes (Score:3, Informative)
So I suppose I cannot test this out to make sure it works.
There was a problem with the 10.2.1 upgrade with multiple video cards of different make (nVidia and ATI, for example) and more than one gig of RAM. Sounds similar, but it sounds like the one that Apple fixed is somewhat different. Both of my cards are Radeons (7500 and 7000), so it never bothered me.
As another poster said, one of the nice things about MacOS is the ease of using old video cards to drive second displays. I have had multiple combinations of cards and monitors and have never had a problem running them at the same time.
Re:It's there, just hidden (Score:3, Informative)
Journalling is good for everyone.. (Score:5, Informative)
for the huge disk servers it means when you power up after a crash you dont have to do a full file system check which could take hours on say a 400GB disk.
what is the cost? a very small amount of disk space (about 8 Megs) and about a 15% reduction in write-to-disk performance. There is no penalty for read performance.
Re:Big fan of OSX, but... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:This is great and all, but... (Score:2, Informative)
As for older hardwdare support, I'm running it on a iBook SE rev1 (366Mhz with Rage Pro) and a Beige G3 (266 oc'ed to 300, Rage Pro video card added-in). Speed is "normal", everything is usable.. just a little slower than OS 9. Quicktime is fast, games (that run, no Open GL
Only thing missing.. Open GL, only chipset caught by that, Rage Pro.. it's not like it was THAT bad...
Re:Does journalling have top be enabled every boot (Score:1, Informative)
sudo diskutil info
shows HFS+ (Journaled)
Re:Journaling on your iPod (Score:2, Informative)
Re:10.2.2 - man page killer? (Score:5, Informative)
Before you update (Score:2, Informative)
Before you update, control-click on the sherlock application, view package contents, look in Resources, copy the Channels directory and then paste it somewhere in your home directory before Apple stomps on it.
Hopefully you can find a way to get the channel back in sherlock after the upgrade.
It's too late on my machine, so I'm hoping the wife hasn't updated hers yet (I don't feel like re-installing Jaguar just get a search channel back.)
-matt
Re:One Problem: (Score:4, Informative)
How odd. The HFS+/UFS partitions I have on my single IDE drive are a figment of my imagination then.
Or is it that Apple RAID doesn't support this?
Re:One Problem: (Score:3, Informative)
Inconsistent Behavior in Apple Apps (Score:2, Informative)
Also, if an application window is minimized to the dock, clicking the application icon in the dock may expand the window (Mail, Address Book, Sherlock and others) or it may not (iChat, Preview). The hallmark of the MacOS before OS X was consistent behavior. Now it seems each application operates by a different set of rules. Bummer.
One other pet peeve: none of the Apple applications include the keyboard shortcut for Hide Others (shift-cmd-H). Many of the third-party applications include this shortcut.
Re:For those of you that can't wait to install... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:One Problem: (Score:4, Informative)
As far as Chinese goes, traditional Chinese characters are used in Taiwan, while simplified Chinese characters are used in mainland China. Again, they're not equivalent. So you wouldn't need or want to map between them.
The uppercase-lowercase thing is pretty much unique to Latin and Latin-derived alphabets. Some languages have contextual forms-- for example, an initial character in Arabic looks different from the same character in medial or final position in the word-- but that's a rendering issue, not an encoding issue.
I actually think it would be quite straightforward to design a Unicode-based system that's case-insensitive with respect to alphabets that have distinct cases. More work than doing so for ASCII, of course, but not insurmountably more.
Re:Mac OSX (Score:3, Informative)
I'm not at that machine right now so, I don't remember what the command line arguments were that turned it on.
Re:Journaling File System (Score:3, Informative)
You are correct that data may be lost, but the integrity of the filesystem itself is never compromised. Remember fsck only cares about the filesystem; it doesn't care so much about the data in the files. Infact it will happily trash a file if it thinks it needs to zero that inode. Even with a journalling filesystem, if you want data integrity you still need something like Oracle to do it (running MySQL on XFS doesn't!).
Re:Before you update (Score:1, Informative)
Go to "Preferences", and check United States in "Countries". And voila, Movies, Yellow Pages, etc are back.
HELP! All my entourage mail is *gone* (Score:3, Informative)
Last nite I ran the 10.2.2 update.
Rebooted.
Did a 'df' in a terminal and noticed I had a lot more hard drive space. Gone down from 83%+ full to 77% full. It was late. Didn't think much of it.
This morning I start entourage and all my account settings, email, folders, filters, addresses are *gone*. The DB in microsoft user data was brand new from scratch. It even popped the set-up assistant.
What did stick around was my signature and rules. Weird.
I called apple they're supposed to get back to me today.
Can anyone think of any issue with the new journaling file system and a big file?
Uuuugh :( note to self. Always back-up before update.