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

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