[newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

[DAVEinDSM]

As you can probably tell..... I'm using windows right now... the reason is that I reformatted everything and reinstalled MS so I could use this computer for email etc while I decided which file system I wanted to install on my linux partition.   I had a bad experience with ext2 the default file system. 1. I had one of my kids push the power button to shut down my mandrake 8.1 box and I couldn't get the system to boot back up.......serious lack of enough knowledge to try to recoup the data and save the file system on my part..... 2. lost alot of data.....(nothing major......but a PITA anyway)      stuff like saved newbie emails that probably told how to recover from a bad ext2 shutdown...stuff like that!! 3. read that reiser fs was better .....especially for newbies like me that have bad shutdowns.....power outages...etc   Any input on that? I want to re install mandrake......but want a file system that recovers fast.....and is stable enough to withstand the occasional bad shutdown. I read all the older posts in the newbie archives.....and seems like reiserfs is the way to go......but am open to suggestions before I re-install.    Reiser FS also should have somewhat faster file access for my large directories of jpegs and html files if I'm not mistaken........I went to www.reiserfs.org  ...read alot there too, but wanted real life experiences..... I trust those more :)   THIA Dave