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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:36:21 +0100
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On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 16:26 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Not if the failure is say a s2ram hang that requires a power cycle. Also 
> there are certain classes of bugs that only occur on cold boot. Plus 
> there's the "need to unplug the battery to revive the system" class of 
> bugs (but they are rare).

So you need to build in enough ECC to cope with the decay which happens
when RAM isn't being refreshed for a few seconds... :)

> So i think the MTD / flash stuff is powerful. 

Yeah, definitely. I was just pointing out that we can actually do a lot
better on today's commodity hardware too.

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dwmw2