On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 9:46 AM, stino <stijndekl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gerald, Look I'm sorry if you took offence by my comment. It’s an awesome
> board, don’t let anybody convince you otherwise  It's just that I've not
> seen it being mentioned anywhere that a correct power down procedure is
> required. If it was a deliberate design choice not to provide some kind of
> fail-safe, I personally would have definitely made this clear to every
> buyer.  I work hands-on with computer equipment of various makes and models
> on a daily basis and I honestly can’t remember the last time a box got
> bricked due to a power outage.  I myself, and as I suspect many others, am
> thinking about turning the BBB into an embedded appliance which makes the
> power button inaccessible.

"look" into read only file systems. I have a solar powered web cam on
the roof using a Beagle-xM for wifi/xbee access. It's been running
Debian Squeeze for the last 5 years just fine on the same base
microSD/image.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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