Not-so stable if you take a CAM error....

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 13:50:39 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net> wrote:

> Here's the backtrace ... sounds like expected behavior, which is not-so
> good all-in for a situation like this.  I guess the strategy is to turn
> off softupdates before attempting such an update so as not to crash the
> host machine if there's a problem with the card.
>

I would tend to assume that removable media should not have softupdates
enabled. Even with properly working media, it's practically begging for
corruption.

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