As an external developer/observer - I would like to see the SD supported as an extension of DS space, whereas USB should definitely be considered removable (seeing as how I can't close the lid with them in :-). That some might want SD to be removable would make that an optioned behavior, but I doubt a lot of people need that right now (since the SD is moderately difficult to remove).
What makes the backup/restore different from a typical removable device is that backup/restore is contextually the things already (or should have been) on the XO while the removable devices contain things that are by definition transient/external to the XO. Although it would be great to be able to have a set of USB keys containing significant data content, images, maps that would be easily accessible from activities. I personally wouldn't worry too much about the case needing forth to extract files from the XO to a non-XO device - at that point expertise is required and tools should be available. While it is a good thing to be human accessible, we wouldn't have databases at all if accessibility was the only thing. Just my 2cents - disregard as appropriate :-) BTW, great work guys - the XO and it's software is a grand experiment and it is a pleasure to be involved no matter how small. Regards, Bob Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: > > I think expanding the space available to the DS through usb devices or > sd cards is a use case we should take in consideration when designing > the DS, even if we don't plan to support it right now. > > Marco > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
