Re: [arch-general] Forced to run fsck manually on unattended system

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:06 AM, edd_smith <edwardmbsmith@gmail.com> wrote:

For what it's worth I'm using SSDs and I've found that a journalled file system (ext3/4) struggled a bit more with sudden power outages, but this is all emperical.

A filesystem without journalling just doesn't know anything went wrong, and silently loses data.