Adam Borowski writes ("Bug#408954: checkroot.sh: should not skip running fsck
with JFS root"):
> Running fsck at boot is useless and harmful for any modern filesystem.
> Sure, for ext2 it was needed to at least somewhat reduce data loss you just
> suffered, but anything newer is crash safe.I still make ext2 filesystems in new installs... If ext3+ checks are harmful at boot then this should be done in the filesystem specific check utility by making the preen function into a noop, surely ? Ian.
