I'd prefer the journaling file system solution, so that the extensive disk checks would no longer be necessary at all. Hugo did say something about this a few months back, I'm just wondering how close to a reality it is. I suppose it all depends on the ability to migrate to the new filesystem easially. This shouldn't be too much of a problem here soon with journaling FS's ganing in popularity in Linux. (It's definitly nice to never see 2000 do a disk check, since NTFS5 is a journaling FS).