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Old 04-17-2018, 01:14 PM   #12
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Snooks certainly has a point.

And I should have added that I only use it on a data disk or partition, not on a startup disk. I've tested it on a startup disk, tho and the performance hit was minor. There can be a worse performance hit in some cases. Like, don't try it on a software RAID setup. And I imagine background backup utilities, like Retrospect could wreak havoc too.

Meanwhile, another FV related bug surfaced. Some Macs, also older ones, don't wake from sleep running 10.3.4. Waking results in a black screen, no way out but to hard reboot the machine. I know of complete data loss in one case. Could be a failing SSD, of course.

What puzzles me since Lion, is that all these bugs only seem to happen to some users. We've hardly seen a "general" bug, affecting all users. Or even all users of certain models.

That seems to suggest it's not hardware related.

Meanwhile, the cause for the FV password reset seems to be the use of a central authentication server, so that bug is limited to the corporate world.

EDIT: Intel ran these tests on a 128GB memory RedHat machine
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