ron minnich wrote:
On 1/30/07, Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ron minnich wrote:
> flashus interruptus, due to things like power dropping, breaker
> tripping, or, literally, people tripping on a power cable :-) Yes,
> there's a battery, but ... maybe their battery has not charged for
> some reason.
I asked early on that we skip flashing in a low-battery scenario, and
was assured it's easily doable.
but it does rely on the EC not having a problem, right? Or not.
I think with 10M nodes, there is no scenario too unlikely that it
won't occur once :-)
Indeed, but the value of preventing N occurrences of possible problem X
must be balanced against M times the cost of the prevention, with M much
greater than N. You can't prevent all possible problems. Some laptops
will get dropped in the water, stolen, run over by trucks, destroyed by
fire, hurled at objects animate and inanimate, you name it.
We shall take reasonable precautions to reduce the probability of
reflash-brickage to an acceptable level. A level of 0 is neither
achievable nor cost-effective.
ron
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