Somehow along the years i thought ReiserFS would be the ultimate answer. And along those years my feeling was they all struggle against EXT3. Not likely the case. XFS is struggling performance against all above. Link Recommended tools for benchmarking: Bonnie++ IOZone Waiting to check aggregated results for my gateway AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ 1670.755 MHz Maxtor 6Y080L0 IDE 1GB RAM assigned