You might want to consider ext3 because it does have a migration path from ext2.

True. If the Different Project in question were being started today, we'd probably use ext3. At the time, ReiserFS was far more stable.

I'm not sure whether the player would "just cope" if you tried to run it on an ext3 filesystem -- we've never tried it, and it depends how well it pretends to be ext2. Currently we assume that anything that doesn't statfs to REISER_SUPER_MAGIC is ext2.

Peter