interesting note on fsck and journalled filesystems

[christoph at linuxsoup.com (christoph at linuxsoup.com)]

This point can not be stressed enough.  Journaling only speeds the recovery
of "expected" or "known" inconsistencies.  It's not a fool proof filesystem.
It's too cold outside.... this lecture it over :-)

> Journalling really has nothing to do with the bulletproofing of a file
> system per se. The reason to use a journalling file system has more to
> do with crash recovery time than with integrity. IMHO, most Unix/Linux
> file systems run without any significant problems for years
>