So far the 2nd empeg is syncing ok.

I just rsynced almost 4gigs to my empeg with hijack 313/ext3 with no problems (by the way, props to the mp3tofid/rsync maintainer that worked beautifully). Unless you can find a way to reproduce the Oops I am inclined to call it a one time fluke. Although, it wouldn't surprise me at all if there are some bugs floating around in the ext3 code still as it hasn't been maintained for the 2.2 kernel for quite some time.

-Mike