I use reiserFS now, was using ext2 before and haven't noticed much difference expect it doesn't scan the disk every 13 boots.

reiserFS, because it was the default option and because someone pointed me to theGentoo docbook which explins some of the differences. It seemed to be the most sensible thing to do.
Are there any good reasons for using 'older' systems like ext2 or ext3?

used to use reiserfs but stupid gdesklets won't read my damn harddrive size correctly, so im back with ext3( i know pathetic, i had to rebuild anyway) - ihavent noticed any performance difference between the two

ReiserFS it's way faster than ext3 :cool:

XFS

I use reiserfs because it's standard in the slack 9.1 install :jawa:

I just wanted to add something about reiserfs.
Once i left my computer open all night and the batteries just died, when i woke up in the mornning and tried to start linux i got a kernel panic, tried to boot from a floppy but still i couldnt get to my system so i just had to reinstall everything again ! just for the record, i sware this is true. I still use it tough, it's fast indeed,

regards

reiserfs4, it's like lightning :)

I wonder when reiser4 is going to get into the default 2.6 kernel, would be great. Currently using reiserfs and no problems so far. Seems faster than ext3

Actually reiserfs has had some latency issues with the 2.6 kernel, and is much slower than with the 2.4 kernel (appearently). Interesting article on this on kerneltrap. So it may actually be slower than ext3 with the 2.6 kernel.

Reiser4 does not suffer from these issues because its nearly a complete rewrite from 3. I would expect it to be merged into 2.7 development sources though, don't hold your breath.

I use Reiserfs from suse, now in slack i used too but i am thinking to migrate to XFS. i want all my partitions and hard drives to be linuxes. music+movies - XFS , /home -reiserfs / -ext2.

I always use reiserfs because once somebody told me to.....

Well, i did.....
.... with several distros....
....small partitions and large partitions.....
....and i never had any problems with it.....
.....so i stay with it :)

I use ReiserFS mainly because I liked it when I had Gentoo installed (emerges were lightning fast when using ReiserFS, compared to ext3 and jfs). Hadn't had any problems with it, but I switch distros and filesystems so often that I haven't used it over an extended period.

For some weird reason I used JFS when I erase and reformat the HD on my iHP-120 (I needed all the space for backup). Bummer, since it contains mostly Windows stuff, and Windows can't read the partition :p ... bah, extra work...

reiser4 because reiser 3.6 has been so good to me. When the power goes out, my system's still there....

being that i am still in my first actual linux install i went with the recommendations on the slack disk.

ext2 /
ext2 /home

slack said that ext2 was stable and fast, and i thought it said that /boot must be ext2...i also chose the highest inode density possible and think i'm suffering for it with available drive space. since i haven't tried ext3 or reiserfs, what exactly is the benefit of a journaled file system? is it purely speed? if reiserfs is that much better, is there a simple way to convert?