Al Boldi wrote:

ext3 is rock-solid!

If only.  Recently I had a system come up after a power cycle with a
directory where reading any file in that directory gives an I/O error.
The disk is fine, and it's using ext3 in ordered mode, with IDE
write-caching disabled to be sure.

So while ext3 is good, I'm not convinced it's rock solid.

-- Jamie