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> Now, since I usually compile software in a tmpfs, I guess the
> filesystem makes nearly zero difference. Video encoding is obviously
> bound by CPU, cache and RAM speed, not filesystem. Web rendering is
> also hardly affected by filesystem . And launching programs means
> mostly reading files, and would reiserfs be significantly faster than
> ext3 for this, specially considering that my system is minimalist and
> the root partition is only 7% used?
>
> So it seems I should not have chosen reiserfs, which has a fame of
> being less safe than ext3, and certainly has less software support
> than ext3. The next time I format my root partition, I will choose
> ext3 (then move to ext4 when it is stable).

Oh, and according to this benchmark
http://linuxgazette.net/122/piszcz.html
reiserfs does not deserve its speed fame.