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Message-Id: <1179470841.2859.550.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:47:21 +0800
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Dongjun Shin <djshin90@...il.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
Jörn Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 08:17 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > AFAIK, the camera stops writing to the flash card and automatically
> > turns off when it's low on battery (before empty).
>
> But then, one should also consider the case where a cam is connected to
> AC and someone inadvertently trips on the power cord.
So you stick a bloody great cap on board to give you enough time to shut
it down cleanly. I've known people do this -- and it helps, but the
devices still manage to crap themselves occasionally even then.
They're _disposable_. As are your data :)
--
dwmw2
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