It's called ReiserFS. It's a journaling filesystem with FAR greater speed
and stability and ext2, AND ext3. It is used best when dealing with large
amounts of small files (ie: everything in unix). www.namesys.com for more
info. It's also the default FS of a large amount of newer and updating
linux distros.

    - Josh Reynolds

On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, John (EBo) David wrote:

> Bryce wrote:
> >
> > Hey Guys,
> > I've been having trouble rebooting my server recently.  Due to a careless
> > workman, the power cord to my server was pulled out and I had to go through
> > the whole headache of fsck.ext2-ing all the partitions on a busy, 60gig hard
> > drive.  What a night mare.  Long story short, this has happened once before
> > in the summer when things were slow and I could try fifty-million things a
> > day.  Now things are busy and I can't do much to restore the crucial server.
> > Anyway, would those willing please donate your x86 architecture kernel,
> > preferably Mandrake 8, to http://www.bryceco.net/kernel/.
>
> there is also a new FS type that is roubust to such chrashes...  I have
> not had time to play around with it myself, but I am sure someone here
> can point you to it.  That is of course an upgrade...
>
>  EBo --
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