I've noticed a pattern lately: I have a number of infrequently rebootedmachines, and every time I reboot one of those machines I wind upsitting and drumming my fingers as the machine cheerfully announces'filesystem X hasn't been checked in N days, checking for you'. It takesa while, because these filesystems are often kind of big and kind offull of things.

This is not ext3's fault; it is faithfully doing what it is configuredto do, and even with all