Comment by bombcar

My journey was similar, but I started with plain EXT2 and eventually investigated (and then moved) to ReiserFS because it came back from unexpected shutdown so quickly. Knowing what I know now about filesystems, I probably could have solved my problem by mounting /mp3s read-only on ext2, but that was then.

I eventually moved on to XFS when it came into the kernel because I got tired of finding tail-packed parts of /etc/password in other important files, preventing boot.