regular fsck runs are too disturbing

[Phillip Susi]

Scott Kitterman wrote:
> ReiserFS is effectively unmaintained.  I've switched from ReiserFS to Ext3 for 
> my installs too.  While it works well now, bitrot seems inevitable.  
> 
> Scott K
> 
> Note: This has nothing to do with an legal issues the developers have.  The 
> Reiser devs have been focused on ResierFS4 for quite some time.

The point though, is still valid; reiserfs doesn't bother forcing a disk 
check every n mounts, so why does ext3 still do this?  I think these 
days the kernel is bug free enough and hardware is generally reliable 
enough that we can drop the forced fsck by default.