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Originally Posted by JesseK

As for using RAMDISK, that's not as straightforward as one might think. For one, most default Linux installs take 1Gb-2GB of total disk space, which would then be put into RAM (unsure of this Ubuntu image though). Then, any changes that are made to the O/S or program settings would have to be re-compressed and re-deployed as the O/S image for RAMDISK to open up at runtime. Usually the data directories (such as /home) and in this case FRC-related application directories (such as /opt) are NFS (network file system) mounted and are actually located on another computer -- yet I wouldn't recommend it for a live FRC field environment. Ergo, the data directories would then have to go somewhere -- presumably still on the SD card that's potentially causing the root issue anyways.

I will have to play with VxWork's nfsdLib. I've never seen the cRIO or switch brown out, but if they did, would the pandaboard be able to recover?