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My SBC is running in an environment where it is very likely that the power is going to be turned off without a proper shutdown. Up until now this has been OK and I have noticed no ill effects.

This is unlikely to change so I would like to know how I can ensure as much as possible that the board survives this treatment. There is a good article at <http://www.embeddedarm.com/about/resource.php?item=459> that deals with subject and mentions a couple of ideas such as running the OS on a read-only partition that I may look into further.

But has anyone dealt with this problem?

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I have found that using a journaled file system can make thinks fairly robust when rooting from an sdcard. I have had good success with jfs and have been trying out ext3. So far ext3 has been working ok for me.

When rooting from onboard flash jffs2 there is the possibility of corruption unless you sync all writes
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This paper has some pointers for making jffs2 more reliable
http://www.embedded-linux.co.uk/downloads/ESC-5.4-flash_filesystems-slides.pdf