Brick Insurance

[Mitch Bradley]

Ivan Krstić wrote:
> ron minnich wrote:
>   
>> Question is, does OLPC want to look at this type of brick insurance?
>>     
>
> Yes, I've just been waiting until we have a clearer idea of the final
> size of OFW before asking Mitch about it.
>   
Agreed.

For now it won't help much because the EC code, which is a single point 
of failure, has to be upgraded so often due to changes from Quanta.  
When that settles down, we should do something along the lines that Ron 
suggests.  There are quite a few ways it can be done.  We'll need to 
consider the characteristics of the FLASH device and the likely failure 
modes to pick the most effective strategy.