On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Scott Newell <newell+timen...@n5tnl.com> wrote: > At 11:03 AM 2/27/2014, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Seriously: Keeping the computer alive and eating power is >> silly. We just need to find out how to get the Linux configured >> correctly. > > > Exactly. We use the PC-Engines ALIX x86 single board computer stuff at work, > and even I didn't have too much trouble getting a pretty much stock Debian > installation 'adjusted' to run with the CF card mounted as read-only. I've > yet to see a problem with power cycles. (But I've only done the power cycle > bench test a few hundred loops.) > > -- > newell N5TNL
My assumption is that, unlike an embedded computer which is plug-and-forget, this thing will get modified, developed on, played around with, etc, all of which includes userland software (= possibly long shutdown times) and disk access (= possibly long shutdown times). It's trivial to run a read-only system but that's limiting and takes out the fun of tinkering with the BBB to make your own applications and other stuff. You might say that we could run the stock system RO and add any user-supplied stuff to RW media and just say that it isn't going to survive a power-down. But that's not really a comfortable situation. D. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.