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On 27/5/20 3:26 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 26 May 2020 20:13:29 +0100, antlists wrote: |
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>>> Mounting the card with sync will significantly reduce the likelihood |
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>>> of corruption, at a cost of reduced life. |
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>> Well, compared to a dead card, a reduced life is a small price to pay |
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>> :-) |
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> A dead card is a reduced life ;-) |
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>> I think you're talking about a corrupted filesystem, I'm talking about |
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>> a corrupt/dead card ... |
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> I am. I still think the idea of a soft power button is the least complex |
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> and most reliable approach. |
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I'll add a "me too" - soft power off rules. Look into a pi-juice Hat or |
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similar - it has a battery and can turn off properly either at low |
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battery, or when power is removed. Alternatively, a pi is very low |
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power anyway ... why not just leave it on in a featureless "black box" |
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with no lights showing and program the remote to to do a fake |
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"standbay/off" that triggers a script to blank the video and or reset |
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the screen to the entry menu? (if you are like me, playing with the gear |
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is way more fun than using it as a media box! :) |
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I have a few different pi's and similar Odroid arm systems running |
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Gentoo on sdcards - the failure rate is a real and constant problem (and |
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seems worse on pi's no matter what brand/type of sdcard so keep an up to |
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date spare+backups) and I am thinking of doing a disk-less NFS using the |
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a minimal sdcard image. Has advantages in centralised management and |
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using small cheap sdcards with possibly better performance. |
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