Take it a step farther then. Kim Salo's nav software used its own swapfiles since the player didn't have enough ram for plotting larger routes. He also allowed you to record logfiles for debug purposes. Both of these required a partition to be mounted rw frequently.


Yeah, that to me is going to be the big win for ext3 on the empeg. Jan makes some excellent points about ext2 - the reality is that ext2 is so bullet-proof in itself that the fscks are almost worthless - and if the journalling means we can remove them completely then it's almost worth doing just for the resulting end-user simplicity.

It's amusing how Micro$oft's scandisk.exe has left people in a state of fear when it comes to disk checks...I swear it's the first true example of cyber-terrorism.