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Ext3/ReiserFS I'm not sure these are comparable systems. From what I can see ext3 is basically ext2 with journaling and reiser is, well let the precis from freshmeat tell you: "reiserfs is a revolutionary new approach to file system design which stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a B*-tree. It is a generation ahead of alternatives which use older plain B-tree technology, and cannot store the files themselves in the tree. Reiserfs doesn't suffer from log congestion either, you can effectively use it for quickly creating a 100,000 entry directory, and it is fairly unique in that. " Not being a filesystem hack, most of that means fairly little to me though. There's even a free implementation of VxFS in the kernel now, which the commercial version of is lots of money afair. I think Red Hat has more of a reputation for incluing the more (b)leading edge stuff in their distro, especially compared to say debian, who I hear are still not using a 2.4 kernel in their next release! -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.