#2609 BLOC Trial-2: USB Updates corrupts USB keys

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#2609: USB Updates corrupts USB keys
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  Reporter:  J5                   |       Owner:  wmb at firmworks.com
      Type:  defect               |      Status:  new              
  Priority:  blocker              |   Milestone:  Trial-2          
 Component:  ofw - open firmware  |     Version:                   
Resolution:                       |    Keywords:                   
  Verified:  0                    |  
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Comment (by rsmith):

 Replying to [ticket:2609 J5]:

 > the USB disk is corrupted.  The culprit points to when OFW writes out
 activation data.  Plugging

 The problem is indeed OFW.  If the filesystem is a FAT32 file system then
 when the activation script writes the lease to the key it corrupts the
 key.  I don't think OFW supports FAT32 due to patent concerns.  In the
 short term OFW should refuse to write to a filesystem it does not support,
 in the long term we may need to address what it will take to get FAT32
 support.

 Then again c_scott tells me that the writing of activation leases to the
 key is a short term work round until we get real activation so perhaps
 this is not that big of a problem.

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