Brick Insurance

Ivan Krstić krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu
Tue Jan 30 11:54:35 EST 2007


ron minnich wrote:
> flashus interruptus, due to things like power dropping, breaker
> tripping, or, literally, people tripping on a power cable :-) Yes,
> there's a battery, but ... maybe their battery has not charged for
> some reason.

I asked early on that we skip flashing in a low-battery scenario, and
was assured it's easily doable.

> Second is flashing the wrong image, while over-riding the "are you
> sure" question.

I think this problem won't apply to our use case.

> If you have a fallback, at least you can live on
> that backup image, and have a usable, albeit outdated, system.

Yup.

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