After finding more flac bugs, I still don't get the impression that the flac development team is concerned with reliability or robustness. When problems occur they tend to point the finger elsewhere - fix your file system, fix your wav headers, etc. So I would never want to rely on it for recording.
I agree. But since I have a 744, it wouldn't help me any since I would still have to decode before mixing. That's just a waste of time.