Hi, I am trying to setup my new laptop to be a very friendly environment for multimedia editing and software development. I have been googling for several hours now and am having trouble coming to a conclusive decision over which filesystem to run. I am leaning toward ReiserFS, but have looked at XFS pretty closely. I have read a little on ext3, but what I have found seems a little bit dated now. Any opinions you guys might have would be very welcome. Here is a summary of the strengths/weeknesses of each of them as far as I can tell. Summary: XFS: Great for a multimedia server. Very fast performance with large files. Not as fast as ReiserFS with smaller files (E.g. software development and day to day use). Tendency to get corrupted on laptops. ReiserFS: Seems to be a good balance. Pretty fast performance with large files, excellent performance with smaller files, very fast at seeking out the location of a file, robust in a laptop environment. ext3: slow. Many tests online compared ext3 to XFS and Reiser and found it failing regularly when used for large file read/writes. Before I jump in and just do it... Anyone have any horror stories of ReiserFS on a laptop, or ReiserFS with Ardour? Anyone have any anecdotes that illustrate that XFS is: a. Suitable for use on a laptop now? b. Suitable for use on a developers box and not just on a multimedia workhorse? Thanks for *any* insight into these two filesystems. --g