In the past I too have lost data due to power outages and ext2 or ext3 filesystems, but now I have exclusively been using reiserfs for about 5 years now on all my boot drives and on my RAID boxes. I typically see >25% speed increase when writing out large files and accessing them for processing purposes and have had zero data loss. Reiserfs4 is looking like it will provide >60% increase in file writes and a boost in file reads... wish it was ready for prime time. Bill Em Qua, 2004-10-27 ?s 12:16, Kyrre Ness Sjobak escreveu: > What does that do to NFS? How does NFS handle a lot of small files? > NFS is not related with this. Reiser and Ext3 are local file systems, > while nfs stands for "network file system". It is used for mapping > remote directories (or mount points, whatever), which is similar (sort > of) with windows using its netbios protocol. As you know, you can mount > a remote directory with windows no matter the remote machine has ntfs, > fat32, fat16 or even a linux with ext3 or reiser or anything. > The same applies to nfs. It does not matter your local filesystem, nor > the remote filesystem. You can use reiserfs on your machine and mount, > for instance, a HPFS filesystem from a remote machine using NFS.