My own testing confirms this. Some people have had kernel oops's. I experienced directories that did not go away after being rm'd. Even reiserfsck did not fix it.
User beware with any ReiserFS partition.
The bug is that a directory listing will not display the really long filenames. I am informed that patches for this problem exist, however these disks suffer from this bug. Disclaimer These disks come with no warranty, implied, expressed, or anything, but feel free to use them and to comment upon them. I have confidence that they work, but I have not proved it to my satisfaction. The disks currently available are based upon boot-floppies 2.2.17 .