On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Rich <ricow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm curious as to why Android has to unmount the SD card at all? Was > this a simple design choice or is it a hardware limitation with USB? > Or something else entirely? >
That's how USB mass storage works. The SD card is a FAT filesystem. USB mass storage works by the desktop mounting it as a block device and managing the filesystem itself. If you have both the device and the desktop trying to manage the filesystem, you will pretty instantaneously corrupt it. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
