#6584 LOW Never A: option to bypass scan of removable device

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#6584: option to bypass scan of removable device
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 Reporter:  mikus        |       Owner:  jg            
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  low          |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  distro       |     Version:                
 Keywords:               |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:               |   Blockedby:                
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 An adult may want to access a removable device (e.g., SD card) which
 contains thousands of files.  If he is able to bypass the Journal when
 using the files on the device, he may wish to avoid having the XO devote
 time and memory to "scan" the content of the device.

 A suggestion was made on the dev list to provide checking for a file
 '.do_not_scan' on the root directory of the removable device.  If present,
 the "scan" of the content of the device would be omitted.

 [I don't know which might be simpler to implement - to entirely avoid
 automounting such a removable device, or to allow automounting but limit
 the "scan" to record just the '.do_not_scan' file itself.  If automounting
 were to be bypassed, the user would be responsible for performing all
 mounts/unmounts of that device.]

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6584>
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