Just wondering, what is generally considered the best Linux filesystem to use? Traditionally I’ve used ReiserFS, but for no real reason. I guess I liked the name 
Which filesystem gives the best performance and reliability out of:
ext2
ext3
ReiserFS
Reiser4
XFS
I tend to use RFS by recomendation from… you guessed it - AT. 
Ubuntu tend to go for ext3 by default. I suppose that should do…
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[li]ReiserFS - Fast and stable; just remember to tar other reiserfs images before storing them on a live Reiser partition.[/li][li]Reiser4 - Looking promising but not ready for mainstream.[/li][li]ext2 - Fast, non-journalized older filestem; depreciated for pretty much everything but floppies & zip drives.[/li][li]ext3 - Slower than ext2 but with added journalization support. Considered stable and easy to recover.[/li][li]XFS - Fast, journalled filesystem which is great for RAIDs but doesn’t work well on pre-2.6 kernels.[/li][li]JFS - A fast, stable journalled filesystem ported from AIX but not widely used on GNU / Linux systems.[/li][/ul]