On Tue, 1 May 2007, Daniel Schröter wrote:
ext3 has the same "problem": http://ukai.org/b/log/debian/snapshot/fsck_completed_but-2005-09-04-15-00.html
Sounds atypical to me, as it used to take around an hour or two to fsck the same 4 TB partition before I changed over to XFS. It's been a couple days now for the XFS, and probably another two weeks left. I've ordered another 4 GB of memory for the system, so it'll have 5 GB to work with soon.
Mike