Use them. I use reiserfs, because it is older and more stable. I will
eventually switch to ext3, when it becomes stable enough for a server.
They are excellent and are offer great filesystem protection. My only 
caveat. I run the /boot partition as a read-only ext2 filesystem. This
way I can boot without building reiserfs or ext3 into the kernel. If you
have your /boot filesystem buried in the / partition then you will need
to have reiserfs or ext3 built into the kernel [not entirely true, but
long answer is out of scope]. I have had my system crash a few times
with the reiserfs going [always because of power outage] and have never
lost so much a character of data. Last time it crashed was during the
ice-storm, I had several on-off sequences and it took the whole thing in
stride. When I got power back it came up, replayed the log and  went on
it's merry way. Every Linux user should be using a journaling file
system.

$0.01 + $0.01,
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rusty [mailto:kujayhawkbb@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:46 AM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: file systems
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any basic insight into the benefits/drawbacks
> of using ext3 or reiser file systems over ext2? Like,
> experiences with one vs. the other...nothing too technical or
> deep, please! :o)
> 
> TIA
> 
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