On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
There was a previous discussion around this idea, that ultimately led me to a place where I think that its going to be extrememly ahrd, if not impossible, to accomplish this in a sufficiently useful way. Unless we can actually make the extra space appear as though its an extension of the Journal (and not an external device) do I see any real benefit. - Eben _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
