On 12 Jun 2011 01:49:00 GMT, Dbdblocker wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:06:20 -0400, mm wrote:

I posted to an English ng, but their answer was writing in a journal.
Now I think I'm thinking about some machining process, journaling???
Related to bearings???

What am I thinking of?

It is what a journaling file system does before it commits data to the
hard drive.

That context is the same as keeping a daily journal or perhaps "Ladies Home
Journal". ;-)

Wasn't it also a way to make a channel in wood or metal?

In wood, anyway, a such a channel is a dado (cross-grain) or rabbet (with the
grain).