Right now applications assume their is either internal storage or an
external SD card.  There is just lots of basic design issues to having
multiple storage mounts -- how do apps decide which to use, how does the
user experience them, does the user need to move files between them, etc.
The core team has no plans for doing any of this work right now.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Brian 1143 <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Thank you for your help.
> About the higher level framework, how many components would be
> involved for modification to support it?
> Does Android have plan to support this for now?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 12月16日, 下午8時36分, "Mike Lockwood" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > mountd has not been tested with multiple partitions on the same card
> > so there is a chance some small fixes might be necessary.  But
> > theoretically it should work if you specify the correct block devices
> > and mount points in mountd.conf.
> >
> > The bigger issue is the higher level framework does not provide any
> > support for multiple external storage devices at present.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > Having checked system/core/mountd/AutoMount.c, it seems that
> > > partitions on SD card could be all mounted if there are mount points
> > > created in /system/etc/mount.conf.
> > > Am I right?
> > > How is the framework designed to work with the second partition on SD
> > > card?
> >
> > --
> > Mike Lockwood
> > Google android team
> >
>


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