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/

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