On Thu 18 October 2012 08:49:34 Derek Trotter wrote:

I noticed when I installed the latest kubuntu a couple of weeks ago that
reiserfs was one of the options to use for formatting the partition.
Does it have some advantage over newer filesystems? Or is it there
because it's been around for several years?

I never really saw the purpose of Resiser since ext4 stabilized. However! 
ReiserFS is murderously fast and has tons of killer features

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/so-i-married-a-kernel-programmer