hi
i'm using reiser4 for root & home on amd64 nvraid for ~2weeks and had no problem til now. 
but i'm looking forward :)
/var is on reiserfs and backup on ext3. all you need is sys-fs/reiser4progs & sys-kernel/reiser4-gentoo-sources (just read the manual on http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Reiser4_With_Gentoo-Sources)
i wouldn't say reiser4 is faster. in fact, i had the same box on reiserfs before i had to change a hdd and i didn't notice any speedup :(
best regards. robert

On Monday 26 December 2005 15:45, Andrea Chiavelli wrote:
> Hi guys.
> I'm going to install gentoo 2005.1-r1 for amd64 on a turion-powered 
> notebook and an awful dilemma caught me: should i use reiser4 for root 
> partition or not? I've read tons of docs available on the topic but i 
> found it a bit contradictory. Do you know anything about the actual 
> state of support of the reiser4 fs? Does the default gentoo-kernel  
> support it ? have you experienced reiser4 on a amd64? Is it really so 
> fast or current software make it buggy and useless?
> Thanks a lot ;-)
> And.
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