Background fsck

[Dan Melomedman]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     You would still lose data with a meta-data-only journal, just not as
>     much, but meta-data logs have a lot of flexibility, it would be possible
>     to make certain guarentees and it is also possible to log file data
>     as well as meta-data when the circumstances dictate.

What about in the case of metadata+data journaling (synchronous). I
guess performance-wise this is worse than a regular sync mounted FS?