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Originally Posted by coplate
It's mostly the general fear that there will be an update that will remove the jailbreak glue.
Considering 5.8.9 blocks the ability to downgrade to those factory images, and the update process now handles the directory trick, it seems like a reasonable precaution.
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None of the firmware versions has ever damaged the jailbreak code bridging an OTA update.
None have even tried.
In the USA, it would be a crime for them to do so, since the bridging code lives in a part of the file system that belongs to the device owner.
The attempts to deal with a directory name are not consistent enough to say that all versions of the OTA process handles the directory trick.
Some do make the attempt and the recent versions that try, fail in a very visible to the user way (with a popup panel that says so).
Since there are a few scattered reports that it does not work on some builds of 5.8.5, then you should probably not be running that version and depending on the blocking directory.
But those reports are few and scattered, most likely because we have never collected the build ID along with the version.