Journaling file systems have been a recurring topic of discussion on Slashdot ... File System Round-Up Interview http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/29/1241237 Why RedHat Chose ext3 For 7.2 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/22/1424238 Linux 2.4.5 Tested With Six Filesystems http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/17/1832209 At this time, ReiserFS may be the easiest to get up and running, simply because out-of-the-box ReiserFS support has been built-in to released versions of major distros such as SuSE and Mandrake for some time now: http://www.suse.com/ http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ The SGI XFS for RedHat Linux 7.1 Installer makes it easy to set up a RedHat machine using XFS; I personally used the 1.0.0 release and had no noticeable XFS related problems: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/101_release.html The RedHat 7.2 "Roswell" beta supposedly contains out-of-the-box support for ext3 and other journaling file systems: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/05/1439205 Joel