Comment by mtanski

While I experienced this pain first hand I'm not sure that the FS deserved a 100% of the blame. There is enough to blame to go around for the userspace, filesytems, block device layer and disk controllers, hardware & firmware.

If you start at the bottom of the stack you have all sorts of issues with drives, their firmware and controllers doing their own levels of caching & re-ordering. Over the years the upper layer developers (block layer / fs) had to deal with hardware that simply lies about what happened or is just plain buggy.