ReiserFS is supposed to be one of the faster filesystems available, although I'm a bigger fan of XFS...
If you haven't already, you could try adding "noatime" as an option to the fstab entry.
Unless you're in dire need of access time logging...
There are more optimizations you can do, but you might have to google it (unless someone replies here).
Some reading on journaling filesystems:
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1180?r=s
You might also get some optimization info from here:
http://www.namesys.com/