i believe ReiserFS just got attributes now that the linux API was finalized. it's not in a stable release yet. however, if you turn off indexing on your BFS partition and then compare speeds to ReiserFS is it really slower in reads/writes? i remember testing some long time ago against other filesystems and testing raw throughput on some drives, and BFS was very close to that raw throughput. i believe this was also the case with Dominic's benchmarks in his book. sure, creation and unlinking will be slower. i think if speed's an issue for someone, create another filesystem or port XFS/ReiserFS/ ext3 or whatever to R5 and it should work in OBOS, right? ;) -soco