reiserfs, xfs and caching (Score 2, Interesting)

After using reiserfs for a year++ and now having switched to xfs, my recommendation is the latter. There is a simple reason to this: reiserfs caches a lot. Even with 512Mb RAM I always ended up with swap after doing a few file transfers, and for a ftp site that is not so good, at least not if you plan to do other things with the computer as well.
A simple solution is of course to disable swap, but that is only a workaround. Until reiserfs gets a little lighter on caching, my recommendation is definitely xfs.