Freerunner - small and fast distribution only for GPS

Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindfors at iki.fi
Wed Sep 1 16:41:25 CEST 2010


Helge Hafting <helge.hafting at hist.no> writes:
> I wonder: For such a simple setup, could unsuspend be used
> instead of booting? I.e. if you lost power, you unsuspend into some 
> saved image, instead of waiting for a cold boot.

The state of hardware will be lost, it's not so easy.

> To be completely power-proof, use a synchronously mounted sdcard. Slow 
> fs, but gps logging is low volume anyway.

Maybe something like LVM snapshots could guarantee an atomic way to
update files on the disk?




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