How to protect my BeagleBone Black from unpredictable 5V electric power interruption?

[c...@mail.ru]

I've heard about it if occur power interruption then my BBB is damage at once. Is it really necessary only UPS or supercapacitor for this? 

[ta...@thinnect.com]

On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 2:19:09 PM UTC+2, c...@mail.ru wrote:

I've heard about it if occur power interruption then my BBB is damage at once. Is it really necessary only UPS or supercapacitor for this? 

I personally haven't witnessed any damage to hardware. The ext4 file system, however, can become corrupt if the power loss occurs at an unfortunate moment. I've seen that happen 6-7 times on this year on some 10-s of devices which get their power disconnected every day.

So far I've implemented following software workarounds:

1. Add nodelalloc as mount option. This should reduce probability of FS corruption according to http://www.pointsoftware.ch/en/4-ext4-vs-ext3-filesystem-and-why-delayed-allocation-is-bad/

2. Add "fsck.mode=force fsck.repair=yes" to the kernel boot arguments. This will enforce FS checks on every boot and fix any problems found.

I have no evidence on the effectiveness of workaround nr 1, but nr 2 seems to alleviate the problem significantly. I've had no dead devices since.

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Kind regards,

Tarmo Kuuse