-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On Fri, May 30, 2008 10:09 am, Andy Green wrote: | |> ~ But not mass storage: this operates in block mode and requires complete |> ownership of the storage by the host then (since if we have it mounted |> too, we will write conflicting things to directory structures, etc). | | Could we emulate a block device, so that Windows thinks it has sole | ownership of a USB block device with a FAT32 FS on it, but for every block | access call it makes we intercept the call, figure out what file windows | is trying to read or write to, make the corresponding change to our local | files (on and ext3 volume), and return emulated results back to windows. | | I dare say windows would get confused if I file it had cached got changed | by Linux, but the user could probably put up with that.
This was proposed before, but it sounds horrible to me. Linux knows already how to deal with sharing a mounted filesystem over the network, better to go on leveraging stuff at that layer. I don't much like Samba either but we could run a stripped down copy of that or lighttpd on our end of the Ethernet-over-USB connection and provide a solid filesystem access solution without any special projects. ~ We already have perl and sshd so KDE's fish:// works fine, just not everybody runs KDE :-) http://linuxreviews.org/kde/kde-user-persp/fish.html - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkg/85IACgkQOjLpvpq7dMoF2gCfQmspYRQxcWN+Bxkjyx6/0j2R gzIAn2Ni8YHcD244LtY3h6OjNAMyCZNu =y7kH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
