On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 09.05.2008, at 18:11, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> FUSE is great, but... >>> >>> It means interoperability must be an explicit planned-in-advance >>> action: >>> if a datastore is already on a removable device in your pocket, and >>> you >>> need to access something on a foreign system, you are stuck unless >>> there >>> is some minimal level of human interpretability of the file system... >>> >>> Instead, you have to dig up a system with FUSE/olpcfs installed, and >>> then copy the files to a conventional file structure. >>> >>> This is the use case that's hard to get around. >> >> Ok, I think I see now where is the misunderstanding. >> >> In the first post in this thread, I tried to explain that this >> proposal would use removable devices in the same way they are used in >> other systems and that the DS would have nothing to do with them: >> >> [...] we get an useful replacement that lacks: >> >> - Support for mounting removable datastores. We have agreed on moving >> to just list the files in removable devices, without the DS having >> anything to do. Although extending the DS capacity with SD cards is an >> interesting feature, it brings many non-trivial issues that make this >> a longer term feature. >> >> [end of quote] >> >> Scott has given some hints about how olpcfs would store files in >> removable devices, and I think that his proposal is sufficient for >> you, right? > > I don't think that is what Jim was getting at. I think it's simply > that if you copy the raw datastore files to another system for > analysis / recovery / whatever, then that task would be greatly helped > by readable filenames. A use case would be that Linux does not boot > anymore but you type in some magic Forth words to copy the datastore > to a USB drive.
Oh, got it now, then it's the "debuggability" requirement, right? Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
