#4406 NORM Never A: XO leaves trash on USB sticks

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#4406: XO leaves trash on USB sticks
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 Reporter:  gnu     |       Owner:  marco                            
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new                              
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Never Assigned                   
Component:  sugar   |     Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:          |    Verified:  0                                
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 B4, Build 611, Q2D01.

 I thought Macintoshes were bad, dropping crumbs of garbage all over your
 USB drive whenever you plug it into a Mac.  Now the OLPC is doing the same
 ugly thing -- but four times as bad.

 On a real Linux machine (that doesn't trash USB keys), I put a single file
 (!SimCity.xo) in the root of an otherwise empty 2GB USB key, unmounted it,
 and moved it to the XO.  I clicked around in the Journal, trying to get it
 to read the USB stick.  Various things did provoke the USB access light to
 light, though I never did see the file appear anywhere.  Ultimately I
 rebooted the XO (it got me into
 a corner of the Journal that wouldn't let me out, and I couldn't unmount
 the USB stick, not from the dev console, and couldn't navigate to the
 "Unmount" pop-up because it wouldn't show me that screen).  I removed the
 stick during the reboot, and examined it on a Linux machine.  It ended up
 containing:

  bash-3.1$ ls -la /media/COMPUSA
  total 16
  drwxr-xr-x 3 gnu  root 4096 Dec 31  1969 .
  drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 23 03:44 ..
  drwxr-xr-x 3 gnu  root 4096 Oct 23  2007 .olpc.store
  bash-3.1$ ls -la /media/COMPUSA/.olpc.store/
  total 16
  drwxr-xr-x 3 gnu root 4096 Oct 23  2007 .
  drwxr-xr-x 3 gnu root 4096 Dec 31  1969 ..
  drwxr-xr-x 2 gnu root 4096 Oct 23  2007 index
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root  107 Oct 23  2007 metainfo
  bash-3.1$ ls -la /media/COMPUSA/.olpc.store/index
  total 136
  drwxr-xr-x 2 gnu root  4096 Oct 23  2007 .
  drwxr-xr-x 3 gnu root  4096 Oct 23  2007 ..
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root  2140 Oct 23  2007 config
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root     0 Oct 23  2007 flintlock
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root    12 Oct 23  2007 iamflint
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root    14 Oct 23  2007 position.baseA
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root    14 Oct 23  2007 position.baseB
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root 16384 Oct 23  2007 position.DB
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root    14 Oct 23  2007 postlist.baseA
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root    14 Oct 23  2007 postlist.baseB
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root 16384 Oct 23  2007 postlist.DB
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root    14 Oct 23  2007 record.baseA
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root    14 Oct 23  2007 record.baseB
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root 16384 Oct 23  2007 record.DB
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root    14 Oct 23  2007 termlist.baseA
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root    14 Oct 23  2007 termlist.baseB
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root 16384 Oct 23  2007 termlist.DB
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root    14 Oct 23  2007 value.baseA
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root    14 Oct 23  2007 value.baseB
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 gnu root 16384 Oct 23  2007 value.DB

 What a load of binary trash!

 The laptop shouldn't write to external USB drives at all -- unless the
 user writes some data to them.  And when it does, it should write whatever
 files the user created -- no more, and no fewer.  Whatever design, or lack
 thereof, that results in some XO program creating 19 files and two
 directories in place of a single file, should be redesigned.

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4406>
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