fsck on boot is major usability issue

[Phillip Susi]

Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> Just out of curiosity: might there be something to gain by using a  
> different file system (Reiser4, XFS, JFS)?

That is a point I have made a few times now; none of those other 
filesystems require a periodic fsck, but they are not magically better 
than ext3, so there is no reason for ext3 to continue to require it.  I 
always use tune2fs to shut it off personally.