Have a look at this benchmark http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html and the interview article http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=69

Someone mentioned that reiserfs slows down after a while because of fragmentation, to be honest I've been running a quite busy web/file storage server using reiserfs for more than 1,5 years without any noticeable slowing down.

On 27/11/05, Colin Copley <cmc.75@btinternet.com> wrote:
Hi List,

Any comment on the best filesystem to use for Gentoo running  a
webserver, I prefer more speed and less journaling, is there a standard?
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