[atlas] USB drive

Hi Philip,

thanks for clearing this up.

It would be really great to take some of the guesswork out of these
cases, by adding one or two checks regarding the thumbdrive and file
system status, transmitting negative results via descriptive SOS
messages and/or system status tags.

On my probe the USB problems led to a system tag "Firewall problem
suspected". This is quite misleading. After your description I would
suspect the FS issue impeded the probe so deeply that it wasn't able to
call home at all anymore.

To my understanding, probes should be fire-and-forget as much as
possible, so I think any fsck should be run in a way that would not
impede an otherwise functioning probe.

Michael



On 30.03.2016 13:50, Philip Homburg wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> [...]
> In general, the probe doesn't care what is on the USB stick. So wiping
> or formatting the stick is not needed.
> 
> There is at the moment one rare exception. The filesystem can go corrupt
> to the point the fsck hangs. 
> [...]
> Philip