lex at cc.gatech.edu wrote:

>
> 
> 	Squeak itself does 1-phase snapshots!
> 	
> If you turn the power off while Squeak is mid-save, you can lose your
> image completely.  I posted a changeset to fix this long ago, but it
> probably needs to be revisited.  It is a fairly portable changeset, even
> though it is at the VM level.  Probably it would need some tinkering to
> work in current Squeak's, but it may interest people even in its current
> state.
> 
> 	http://impara.de/~bert/swiki.gsug.org/sqfixes/1277.html
> 
Why on earth do this in the VM? Much simpler in the image. Especially 
if/when primitives could return error codes to help work out which if 
the many possible problems might have occured - gosh, lookee here, I 
happen to have some code ready for some future VM release.

tim