recommending reiserfs?

[Steven Stern]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:19:52 +0300, Stefanescu Vlad <vladstef at b.astral.ro>
wrote:

>Hi. Got a question for all you gurus out there ! :)
>I came upon this filesystem (new to me), which is said by many to be 
>more effective that ext3.
>It is said to have an internal arborescent system which is supposed to 
>improve disk performance.
> From hands-on experience... is that true?
>Thanks in advance...
>
>Vlad,
>guru wannabe :)

Start your reading here

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs.html and
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs7/

As I read it, reiser is excellent for file systems with lots of active, small
files like /var/spool/mail
--
   Steve