On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:54:37AM +0100, Ben wrote: > > I am currently researching an idea I've had for an engineering > project... part of which involves transferring files from a Linux > machine to a USB device with solid state storage. > > Am I correct in thinking that no drivers will be needed under Linux if > the device identifies itself as mass storage class and implements the > reduced block commands (rbc)?
Yes.
> Would the device also need to implement some sort of file system, such
> as ext2?
Yes, probably. The protocol operates at the block layer... unless you can
store what you need using block-level access, some filesystem support will
be needed.
Matt
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