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The most-publicised advantage over the stock Linux filesystem, EXT2, is that it is a journalled filesystem which uses journalled metadata. This feature greatly reduces the risk of filesystem corruption (and the need for lengthy file-system checks) after an unscheduled system shutdown through power outage or a system crash. Unfortunately, it requires users of EXT2 to completely reformat their disks, which is a disadvantage not shared by its main competitor EXT3.
ReiserFS also handles directories containing huge numbers of small files very efficiently. This is important when handling Usenet news spools.
wikipedia.org dumped 2003-03-17 with terodump