On reiserfs and external attributes

On reiserfs and external attributes

Ouch. You can't have a more than 100% faster write -- it would complete before it's issued. ;-) (Yeah, I know, he probably meant >50%, i.e. that v3 is 100% slower than v4. I freely admit that nitpicking is fun.)

That being said, most programs could care less about which file system they're running on. Thus, uniformity of features is somewhat more important than purity.