On 3/27/2014 12:26 PM, rh_ wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 07:41:11 -0500 > Charles Steinkuehler <char...@steinkuehler.net> > wrote: > >> On 3/26/2014 10:22 PM, Yiling Cao wrote: >>> Thanks Brandon for your experience. I do agree with that better to >>> put whole disk read only. >>> >>> But how do iPhone and Android survive? Esp for those Android >>> phones? They are very prone to sudden power removal as well. >> >> What? These devices are battery powered, and other than opening the >> case and physically removing the battery they are guaranteed enough >> power to do a proper and orderly shutdown. > > I pull the battery on my android frequently doing devel. Never had any > problems. I pull the plug on my BBB all the time too, at least once/day. > No problems.
Yes, but are you writing to the flash when you pull the power? There is a huge difference between "it works for me" and *RELIABLY* avoiding data corruption when power is unexpectedly removed with significant write activity in-progress. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.