On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Pete2s <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the link--it's a lot of helpful information. > > Could you or someone explain what Google made different in HC to tear > down the distinction between app memory and media memory?
We removed USB mass storage support (which essentially *requires* to expose a FAT32 partition/volume to the connect PC, which then requires the partition to be FAT32). Instead, we now use the MTP protocol, which is a higher-level protocol that allows the device to use any kind of partition/filesystem scheme to expose the data. The data itself appears to applications through a FUSE daemon that ensures that the typical FAT32 brain-damage (e.g. total lack of permissions) is maintained when accessed through the /media folder. But it is really stored in the internal (shared) flash storage. > I thought > for security and copyright reasons, a secured partition that stored > apps could not be mounted as a drive. With the Xoom, it appears you > can still mount the drive that stores both apps and media. > > I can't really comment on this, sorry. I doubt you can mount the /data partition though. > On Feb 25, 12:50 am, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes -http://groups.google.com/group/android-contrib/msg/36507d312cfcae00 > > > > Al. > > ====== > > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company > number 6741909. > > > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > > > On 25 Feb 2011, at 06:32, Pete2s wrote: > > > > > > > > > On the Motorola Xoom, there is no longer a distinction between memory > > > for apps and memory for media. In the past, Android devices had a > > > secure partition only for apps. For the user, this often resulted in > > > wasted space--if you liked apps, you could quickly run out of app > > > space even though GBs were free for media; or you could fill up your > > > media space and be unable to store more songs despite having GBs of > > > free space allocated only for apps. > > > > > Will we see a similar memory architecture on phones? > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Discuss" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
