Re: Ext3 vs. Reiser?

[Ravindra Jaju <jaju it iitb ac in>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:44:57PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> My summary: use Ext3 for important data: /var, /home, /etc, / and
> ReiserFS for /usr and other parts which you can easily restore when
> something is broken.

/usr is mostly reads. Does ReiserFS score more in that over ext3?
If not, then why lose the compatibilty of ext3 as well as ease
of switch-over ( from and to ext2, in case of problems )?

regards,
jaju