diff --git a/updater/Android.mk b/updater/Android.mk
index dcf4374..d74dffc 100644
--- a/updater/Android.mk
+++ b/updater/Android.mk
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 endif
 
 LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES += $(TARGET_RECOVERY_UPDATER_LIBS) $(TARGET_RECOVERY_UPDATER_EXTRA_LIBS)
-LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES += libapplypatch libbase libedify libmtdutils libminzip libz
+LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES += libapplypatch libbase libotafault libedify libmtdutils libminzip libz
 LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES += libmincrypt libbz
 LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES += libcutils liblog libc
 LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES += libselinux
diff --git a/updater/blockimg.cpp b/updater/blockimg.cpp
index 3b26f05..86be476 100644
--- a/updater/blockimg.cpp
+++ b/updater/blockimg.cpp
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 #include "edify/expr.h"
 #include "mincrypt/sha.h"
 #include "minzip/Hash.h"
+#include "otafault/ota_io.h"
 #include "print_sha1.h"
 #include "unique_fd.h"
 #include "updater.h"
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@
 static int read_all(int fd, uint8_t* data, size_t size) {
     size_t so_far = 0;
     while (so_far < size) {
-        ssize_t r = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(read(fd, data+so_far, size-so_far));
+        ssize_t r = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(ota_read(fd, data+so_far, size-so_far));
         if (r == -1) {
             fprintf(stderr, "read failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
             return -1;
@@ -155,7 +156,7 @@
 static int write_all(int fd, const uint8_t* data, size_t size) {
     size_t written = 0;
     while (written < size) {
-        ssize_t w = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(write(fd, data+written, size-written));
+        ssize_t w = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(ota_write(fd, data+written, size-written));
         if (w == -1) {
             fprintf(stderr, "write failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
             return -1;
@@ -621,7 +622,7 @@
         return -1;
     }
 
-    if (fsync(fd) == -1) {
+    if (ota_fsync(fd) == -1) {
         fprintf(stderr, "fsync \"%s\" failed: %s\n", fn.c_str(), strerror(errno));
         return -1;
     }
@@ -641,7 +642,7 @@
         return -1;
     }
 
-    if (fsync(dfd) == -1) {
+    if (ota_fsync(dfd) == -1) {
         fprintf(stderr, "fsync \"%s\" failed: %s\n", dname.c_str(), strerror(errno));
         return -1;
     }
@@ -1466,7 +1467,7 @@
         }
 
         if (params.canwrite) {
-            if (fsync(params.fd) == -1) {
+            if (ota_fsync(params.fd) == -1) {
                 fprintf(stderr, "fsync failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
                 goto pbiudone;
             }
@@ -1491,7 +1492,7 @@
     rc = 0;
 
 pbiudone:
-    if (fsync(params.fd) == -1) {
+    if (ota_fsync(params.fd) == -1) {
         fprintf(stderr, "fsync failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
     }
     // params.fd will be automatically closed because of the fd_holder above.
diff --git a/updater/install.cpp b/updater/install.cpp
index b090869..be97355 100644
--- a/updater/install.cpp
+++ b/updater/install.cpp
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 #include "minzip/DirUtil.h"
 #include "mtdutils/mounts.h"
 #include "mtdutils/mtdutils.h"
+#include "otafault/ota_io.h"
 #include "updater.h"
 #include "install.h"
 #include "tune2fs.h"
@@ -555,18 +556,18 @@
         }
 
         {
-            int fd = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(open(dest_path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_SYNC,
+            int fd = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(ota_open(dest_path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_SYNC,
                   S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR));
             if (fd == -1) {
                 printf("%s: can't open %s for write: %s\n", name, dest_path, strerror(errno));
                 goto done2;
             }
             success = mzExtractZipEntryToFile(za, entry, fd);
-            if (fsync(fd) == -1) {
+            if (ota_fsync(fd) == -1) {
                 printf("fsync of \"%s\" failed: %s\n", dest_path, strerror(errno));
                 success = false;
             }
-            if (close(fd) == -1) {
+            if (ota_close(fd) == -1) {
                 printf("close of \"%s\" failed: %s\n", dest_path, strerror(errno));
                 success = false;
             }
@@ -999,7 +1000,7 @@
         goto done;
     }
 
-    if (fread(buffer, 1, st.st_size, f) != static_cast<size_t>(st.st_size)) {
+    if (ota_fread(buffer, 1, st.st_size, f) != static_cast<size_t>(st.st_size)) {
         ErrorAbort(state, "%s: failed to read %lld bytes from %s",
                    name, (long long)st.st_size+1, filename);
         fclose(f);
@@ -1102,7 +1103,7 @@
     if (contents->type == VAL_STRING) {
         // we're given a filename as the contents
         char* filename = contents->data;
-        FILE* f = fopen(filename, "rb");
+        FILE* f = ota_fopen(filename, "rb");
         if (f == NULL) {
             printf("%s: can't open %s: %s\n", name, filename, strerror(errno));
             result = strdup("");
@@ -1112,12 +1113,12 @@
         success = true;
         char* buffer = reinterpret_cast<char*>(malloc(BUFSIZ));
         int read;
-        while (success && (read = fread(buffer, 1, BUFSIZ, f)) > 0) {
+        while (success && (read = ota_fread(buffer, 1, BUFSIZ, f)) > 0) {
             int wrote = mtd_write_data(ctx, buffer, read);
             success = success && (wrote == read);
         }
         free(buffer);
-        fclose(f);
+        ota_fclose(f);
     } else {
         // we're given a blob as the contents
         ssize_t wrote = mtd_write_data(ctx, contents->data, contents->size);
@@ -1445,7 +1446,7 @@
     memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(((struct bootloader_message*)0)->command));
     FILE* f = fopen(filename, "r+b");
     fseek(f, offsetof(struct bootloader_message, command), SEEK_SET);
-    fwrite(buffer, sizeof(((struct bootloader_message*)0)->command), 1, f);
+    ota_fwrite(buffer, sizeof(((struct bootloader_message*)0)->command), 1, f);
     fclose(f);
     free(filename);
 
@@ -1493,7 +1494,7 @@
         to_write = max_size;
         stagestr[max_size-1] = 0;
     }
-    fwrite(stagestr, to_write, 1, f);
+    ota_fwrite(stagestr, to_write, 1, f);
     fclose(f);
 
     free(stagestr);
@@ -1513,7 +1514,7 @@
     char buffer[sizeof(((struct bootloader_message*)0)->stage)];
     FILE* f = fopen(filename, "rb");
     fseek(f, offsetof(struct bootloader_message, stage), SEEK_SET);
-    fread(buffer, sizeof(buffer), 1, f);
+    ota_fread(buffer, sizeof(buffer), 1, f);
     fclose(f);
     buffer[sizeof(buffer)-1] = '\0';
 
@@ -1531,13 +1532,13 @@
 
     size_t len;
     android::base::ParseUint(len_str, &len);
-    int fd = open(filename, O_WRONLY, 0644);
+    int fd = ota_open(filename, O_WRONLY, 0644);
     int success = wipe_block_device(fd, len);
 
     free(filename);
     free(len_str);
 
-    close(fd);
+    ota_close(fd);
 
     return StringValue(strdup(success ? "t" : ""));
 }