Comment 41 for bug 1387214

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Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti) wrote : Re: [Bug 1387214] Re: [TOPBLOCKER] file corruption on touch images in rw portions of the filesystem

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Oliver Grawert <email address hidden> wrote:
> i think the "sudo reboot" and "low battery" case are the same, both
> should use init's shutdown/reboot commands ...

Right.

> i dont think a kernel panic is a "normal usecase", if we ship panicking
> devices i think we failed ... developers should simply be aware that
> panics can cause corruption, this is no different to desktop development

Well, it might not necessarily be a "normal" usecase, but we should
expect that to happen. It's better to better handle the crash than
expecting it to no crash at all, as we can't guarantee that with this
kernel.

And we should be thinking about normal users instead of developers :-)