On Tuesday 18 July 2006 7:27 am, Alan Stern wrote:
>        When you export a filesystem as a USB mass-storage device, it
> is very important that the host and the device do _not_ try to access the
> filesystem at the same time. ...
> 
> If this restriction is too strong, you also have the option of supporting
> CDC Ethernet.  Then you could configure your device as a network file
> server and the host could mount it remotely, using regular file sharing.

Another option is to use something like PTP, which provides the abstraction
of a hierarchical store and works something like FTP-over-USB plus some
change notifications issued by the device.   PTP has various camera related
extensions too.

- Dave


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