text_combined: aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom joe sloan wrote jerry houston wrote joe morris wrote yes course run cli command mounted rw filesystem check boot mounted rw could remount filesystem ro convenient root partition decided small price pay data consistency often boot server fs corruption left uncorrected advantage minutes adds boot every months imo conversation confused im relatively new linux ive read one post claiming someones linux system running nonstop nearly three years kind file system _those_ folks use probably posted uptime server near 1040 days also dozen linux servers around 550 days uptime recent kernel update none servers ever gone except hardware maintenance kernel update power failure use reiser btw default suse enterprise unfortunately reiserfs burned power failure situation contrast laptop suffered couple power failures generator maintenance base typically 4 hours xfs suffered problems wed 06 aug 2008 053949 0500 opensuse ext3 check forced frustration