From: Frank Gevaerts <frank_at_gevaerts.be>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 14:45:17 +0100

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 02:38:50PM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote:
> > * Sometimes, no bookmark was created on power-off.
> >
> > -Bug, not a reason to implement a new redundant system. Fix the bug if it's
> > a problem.
> >
> It's not a bug it's a feature :-)
> Rockbox refuse to write data to disk if battery voltage drops below
> dangerous level defined in target specific powermgmt-xxx.c file.
> This is to prevent filesystem corruption which could occur if hard
> power down happens in the middle of writing data to the disk.

True, but that reasoning is equally valid for things stored in the
database

Frank

>
> Marcin

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Received on 2011-01-04