From: John Hasler on
Stan Hoeppner writes:
> I'd also like to add that anyone smart enough to be on this list is
> smart enough to know you should have a UPS, regardless of what
> filesystem you use. If you're not you shouldn't be here.

I guess I don't belong here then...
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From: Stan Hoeppner on
Volkan YAZICI put forth on 7/27/2010 12:59 PM:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner <stan(a)hardwarefreak.com> writes:
>> I'd also like to add that anyone smart enough to be on this list is smart
>> enough to know you should have a UPS, regardless of what filesystem you use.
>> If you're not you shouldn't be here. If you disagree on the technical merits
>> (not cost), you're uneducated and/or stubborn.
>
> You are still not getting it, don't you? We have thousands of embedded

I get it now. This is the first you mentioned embedded systems.

> linuxes in the wild and they are just simple data aggragetors. You can't
> have a power backup unit in such a condition.

Sure you can:
http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-BAT3

And they make 'em even much smaller than that. If you get the right books,
_you_ can make 'em smaller than that. :)

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From: Aniruddha on
Time for some testing, I will put Debian stable with XFS on my laptop and
see how well it deals with power failures :)
From: Stan Hoeppner on
Aniruddha put forth on 7/27/2010 2:47 PM:
> Time for some testing, I will put Debian stable with XFS on my laptop and
> see how well it deals with power failures :)

Thanks for picking up the torch/gauntlet/whatever. How do you laptop test
this issue? It's a laptop. Yank the battery? Yanking the wal-wart
(transformer) won't do diddly.

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From: Aniruddha on
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan(a)hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> Aniruddha put forth on 7/27/2010 2:47 PM:
>> Time for some testing, I will put Debian stable with  XFS on my laptop and
>> see how well it deals with power failures :)
>
> Thanks for picking up the torch/gauntlet/whatever.  How do you laptop test
> this issue?  It's a laptop.  Yank the battery?  Yanking the wal-wart
> (transformer) won't do diddly.

I'll use it 'till runs out of battery. :)


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