Hi All,
Cheers Volker, Very comic.
Regarding the technical issues, Wouldn't ext2 support be a part of the
linux kernel? Therefore if I can get said cellphone rooted, there may be
a way of enabling ext2 somehow? Chances are, there is only a simple
trick employed to prevent access to the filesystem.
Regarding flash filesystems, the reason for choosing this was to try and
prevent unnecessary writes (journal)to the card and reducing the
lifespan of the card. This is only going by some posts on forums about
the matter. Some people actually report specific models actually
supporting ext3-4 out of the box.
It would be great fun to screw m$ and get a 128mb card and get an old
cellphone running a 128mb card!
C'mon, someone must have some leads!
Cheers,
Peter
On 8/07/2017 1:08 p.m., Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Sat 08 Jul 2017 12:38:38 NZST +1200, Peter Simmonds wrote:
Obviously the first thing to do was $crew microsoft and format it as ext2.
Superbly excellent idea. Been there, done that.
That equally superbly braindead vfat (Billy has patents on that shite,
probably one of the reasons he's screwed all the android companies)
doesn't even store time stamps properly (2s granularity is the easiest
to deal with, being too dumb for daylight saving or any time zone is
impossible to work around - bye bye syncing files between PC and phone
with rsync (the only thing really worth looking at).
What would be involved in getting an android phone to actually
recognize an ext2 formatted card? It only at present recognizes it
as a "Blank" card.
I am unsure it would ever work. I gave up at this point. Obviously
android has ext2 fs drivers, and obviously isn't deploying them on the
sd card. There is a lot of non-unix scullduggery going on in android
around user management (and everywhere else). E.g. there are a large
number of filesystems mounted on directories of the sd card - one per
app. Doing this on stoneage Microsoft vfat crapola might just work
better than doing it on ext2.
Also, ext2 is a filesystem made for spinning platters, not flash memory!
But if it's possible somehow I'm also keen to hear. All my syncing
depends on rsync.
Volker
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