File loss with JFS

2 days after transferring my Reiser3.6 LVM based Arch setup to a 160GB disk with JFS partitions, an electrical storm caused a sudden power outage.
On rebooting, all the .torrent files that Azureus had open, and the list of open tabs in Firefox (Tab Mix Plus option) had been deleted, (a total of around 100 files).
Until then I had assumed that the files would be restored, possibly out of date but still intact, courtesy of the journalling capabilities of the file system. Obviously a flawed assumption.
Has anyone else experienced this behaviour? Googling on the subjects suggests data loss is possible but for files not to exist anymore appears to make the choice of JFS totally unviable to anyone without a UPS, ie most home users. It certainly doesn't inspire confidence - restoring backups is one thing, but what about files you don't know have gone?
Even when using Windows I never experienced this sort of loss, despite several reboots due to the OS crashing frequently.
None of the reviews I have read have assessed file system reliability after unplanned outages.
Are there any reliable file system alternatives?

I've had similar problems in the past when i used Suse (jfs has been their default file choice for a long time).
Even with clean shutdowns i sometimes had problems with files missing.
I think it has to do with the delay before journal entries are written to disk in JFS. This increases performance, but decreases reliablility.
I switched to ext3 and kept ext3 when i started using arch.
I've been on ext3 for over a year a now and never had such problems anymore.
on 1 occasion a visitor stumbled over the cable, shutting down everything forcibly.
I was downloading 6 torrents in azureus at the time and they all were fine after rebooting.
Added:
Opps, my memory failed. Byte is correct, it was REISERFS that gave me those problems, not jfs.

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returns [text]: the changed text
set SomeText to SomeText as text
if CaseType is not in {"upper", "lower", "title", "capitalize"} then return SomeText
return (do shell script "/usr/bin/python -c \"import sys; print unicode(sys.argv[1], 'utf8')." & CaseType & "().encode('utf8')\" " & quoted form of SomeText)
end ChangeCase
</pre>
Edit: how does the choose from list dialog handle those big strings? I'm guessing not very well - is that why you avoided using them?
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I have an old mpg video file, taken with a very early model "smart phone", that opens and plays fine in my newly "rebuilt" iPhoto library. I cannot open, edit it or share it with any other software. How can I fix it, to be able to do anything with it?

I have an old mpg video file, taken with a very early model "smart phone", that opens and plays fine in my newly "rebuilt" iPhoto library. I cannot open, edit it or share it with any other software. How can I fix it, to be able to do anything with it?
Detail:
I've recently purchaced a 4TB Thunderbolt drive to store my "vast" music and photo libraries. iPhoto had an issue reading the moved library, so I bought and used iPhoto Library Manager to "rebuild" it. Apart from much of the original data such as date taken & camera used etc, it appears to be working well. The aforementioned mpg video was taken some 9 years ago, using an early model "iMate" smart phone, and opens and plays fine on iPhoto, but I cannot open it with anything else, (I've tried iMovie, VLC players, Wondershare and Handbrake) nor can I share it. I just want to edit it, and share it with family.
Any help would be appreciated...

No - not iMovie, VLC, Wondershare or Handbrake... Quick time starts with a "CONVERTING", then I get
I've looked at the "tell me more" links, tried downloading some of the movie players there. I'm begining to think the file is corrupt.
Thanks for getting back to me again though - appreciate it...

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Right, I got that. But the computer is in constant use by User A, while I need access to User B's files. I could need access at anytime, and it would be a pain to make User A log off and log in as User B everytime. I was just wondering if there is anyway to access User B's files in this situation, without logging User B in.

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itunes is copying/converting 500gb of music from .wma to .m4a files that are on an external drive onto my laptop which doesnt have enough room. how do i reroute these newly converted files somewhere with enough space for them?
new to itunes, used windows media player before that and always ripped music directly to an external hardrive and accessed it through the player. now that i downloaded itunes it is taking from the external hardrive and copying a second file for each song onto my lap top hard drive which does not have the capacity for all my music. as itunes converts music files i want them saved back onto my external drive or another location i have space for rather than the lap top. how do i change the setting to move the itunes media folder to another location. assuming that hitting copy and past and dropping it in a random location will cause a few errors.

When I have done this, all I did was network the two machines and copy the contents of the iTunes folder to the other machine, and that's it.
My understanding (which may not be 100% correct) is that the one file that is absolutely necessary is iTunes Library, and that the XML file is actually a copy auto-generated from the iTunes Library, appearing in a different format only for non-iTunes apps that take advantage of the iTunes Library data.
As far as I know, if you simply have the Library (database) file and all your original music files, iTunes on that computer should operate as it did on your old computer. I believe that the Album Artwork, Genius Data, and XML files can be regenerated from the Library file. Not sure about the Extras file.

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