From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:47:21 +0800 Message-ID: <1179470841.2859.550.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <20070515151919.GA32510@lazybastard.org> <20070515133759.9ee434a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1179317240.2859.222.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070516083408.dcd9dd78.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1179330596.2859.248.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070516164158.GB8113@lazybastard.org> <7fe698080705162312t4e7ed90byd10ef8e664027b17@mail.gmail.com> <1179383117.2859.416.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <7fe698080705170120w18fe5521oa685cf248a45e1c6@mail.gmail.com> <20070517201847.GA5032@ucw.cz> <7fe698080705171701w533767fdo6642bb772ed64273@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dongjun Shin , Pavel Machek , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Albert Cahalan , Thomas Gleixner , Evgeniy Polyakov , Pekka Enberg , Greg KH , Ingo Oeser To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:58941 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754977AbXERGrx (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 02:47:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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