"recovering journal" at every system boot

["John Smith" <the.real.monkey.d.luffy@gmail.com>]

Everytime I boot the system, from a clean state (i.e. no power failure
or inexpected reset), the boot process stops for about 1 minute to
perform a "/dev/sdb1: recovering journal" session.


fsck logs this messages:
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#cat /var/log/fsck/checkroot
Log of fsck -C -a -t ext3 /dev/sda1
Wed Jun 27 18:37:38 2007

fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/sda1: Superblock last write time is in the future.  FIXED.
/dev/sda1: clean, 304902/2048000 files, 2362204/4090550 blocks

Wed Jun 27 18:37:38 2007

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#cat /var/log/fsck/checkfs
Log of fsck -C -R -A -a
Wed Jun 27 23:37:40 2007

fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/sdb1: recovering journal
/dev/sdb1: clean, 12844/78464 files, 30360286/80325000 blocks

Wed Jun 27 23:38:11 2007


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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/sda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/sdb1       /vault          ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       2



- sda1 filesystem was made by standard installer

- sdb1 filesystem was made using:
mkfs.ext2 -m 1 -O
dir_index,filetype,has_journal,^journal_dev,^resize_inode,^sparse_super
-T largefile4 -v /dev/sdb1



Thanks in advance for any help.