On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:20 AM, David Farning <[email protected]> wrote: > A solution would be to design a cape with a small battery to provide > enough power to enable the Beagleboard to gracefully power down when > it detects that external power is gone. That is probably the quickest > solution. > > A second solution would be to audit the code to ensure the the file > system is not left in an unstable state during a power outage. > Companies like Red Hat and Google have spent $10's of millions on this > problem. It is even more interesting for cloud people as virtual > machines tend to be started and stop very frequently. > > Both of these are really interesting problems. My guess is that if > anyone wanted to work on these as personal projects or 'value adds' > for their devices Robert, et. al. would be very interested into > pulling them into main line once the kinks were worked out.
There's a good readme here: https://wiki.debian.org/ReadonlyRoot One of the problems, some applications don't like everything read only, so you need to boot at-least once as rw. This was the case with Squeeze, haven't investigated it lately with wheezy. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
