#2424 HIGH Trial-2: activation-enabled updates corrupt update drives

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#2424: activation-enabled updates corrupt update drives
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  Reporter:  dcbw    |       Owner:  wmb at firmworks.com
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new              
  Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  Trial-2          
 Component:  distro  |     Version:  Q2C18            
Resolution:          |    Keywords:                   
  Verified:  0       |  
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Changes (by cscott):

  * owner:  cscott => wmb at firmworks.com

Comment:

 This looks like a bug in OFW's FAT16 support.  The latest
 autoreinstallation script detects when you boot from a non-FAT partition,
 but it probably isn't (yet) smart enough to distinguish between FAT16 and
 FAT32.  IRC sez:

 (07:13:15 PM) C. Scott Ananian: Mitch_Bradley: can OFW write to FAT16?
 (07:13:30 PM) C. Scott Ananian: Mitch_Bradley: see bug #2424:
 https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2424
 (07:15:57 PM) Mitch_Bradley: cscott: in principle it can, and it has
 always worked for me, but new and amusing issues appear from time to time.
 (07:18:10 PM) Mitch_Bradley: cscott: can you get your hands on that
 device?
 (07:18:57 PM) Mitch_Bradley: cscott: I have one of those hockeypuck
 drives, but of course it is the fs layout thereon that is interesting
 (07:24:57 PM) C. Scott Ananian: Mitch_Bradley: dcbw reported the bug, so I
 expect he's got the device
 (07:25:26 PM) Mitch_Bradley: cscott: Is he at 1cc today?
 (07:25:32 PM) cjb: he was
 (07:26:01 PM) Mitch_Bradley: I hope the test case is still intact

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