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Oh, I love the Macintosh...
Oct. 11th, 2005 17:51Journalled file systems are wonderful, except when they're not.
When my otherwise-pretty-dependable OSX machine started acting up a week or so ago, I decided that since some of my OS' shared frameworks seemed to be hosed, the best thing to do was to do an archive-and-reinstall of the OS. Three hours.
This seemed to work for a week or so. Then, after coming in this morning after a long weekend, I discover that my apps are once again presenting lots of spinning beachballs and hardcrashing all over the place.
Feh.
So, out, once again, comes the Disk Utility and to my dismay it reports that my file system's BTree has muddled up its keyed entries, and is unrepairable. Zoom. So I zip out to my local Mac store, shell out for a copy of a "third party disk recovery application", and point said software at my Mac. Two hours later, it claims to have rebuilt my file system.
Now things seem to be working again, but I have this horrible suspicion that there is something running on my machine that's causing Very Nasty(tm) file system corruption.
Go Apple.
When my otherwise-pretty-dependable OSX machine started acting up a week or so ago, I decided that since some of my OS' shared frameworks seemed to be hosed, the best thing to do was to do an archive-and-reinstall of the OS. Three hours.
This seemed to work for a week or so. Then, after coming in this morning after a long weekend, I discover that my apps are once again presenting lots of spinning beachballs and hardcrashing all over the place.
Feh.
So, out, once again, comes the Disk Utility and to my dismay it reports that my file system's BTree has muddled up its keyed entries, and is unrepairable. Zoom. So I zip out to my local Mac store, shell out for a copy of a "third party disk recovery application", and point said software at my Mac. Two hours later, it claims to have rebuilt my file system.
Now things seem to be working again, but I have this horrible suspicion that there is something running on my machine that's causing Very Nasty(tm) file system corruption.
Go Apple.
