> If the filesystem is marked clean, does that mean that people with
> journalling file systems are fscked? (since there might be no journal entry
> of what hasn't finished.)
Well, if filesystem doesn't have a recovery tool that would allow forced
check mode - you _are_ screwed. As you will be again and again if you get
memory corruption/driver bugs/fs bugs/RAID bugs/physical disk problems/etc.
Again, if filesystem trusts clear bit to the extent that you have no way
to convince it that checks _are_ needed - it's unfit for any serious use.
I suspect that by now everybody had learnt that much - that used to be
a permanent source of problems with early journalling filesystems and AFAIK
all of them had been fixed since then.
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