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I ran SuSE 7.1 and now I am using 7.3. On both systems I had reiserfs *without* the mentioned trouble! And I still haven't (keep my fingers crossed after reading all the trouble....) But... The boot partition is ext2!!! And that's on purpose, for a friend of mine indicated that having your boot partition on reiserfs is asking for trouble (which is his experience).
Do note that the HD controller is a factor as well. Although I still prefer Ext[23] for important stuff, I do have a proplem with fsck [wait for ever] for any filesystem that's controlled by an Adaptec 29160 as of kernel 2.4.10. No solid Fix yet. While I'm typing this, I also start to realize that we're getting awfully of-topic here... So s'cuze-me folks :^( CIAO, Peter