On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:06:08 -0300 Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Andy Green wrote: > > another device with microSD, I don't. I have Sony Memory Stick, USB > > thumb drives, CF cards, I even have some big oldstyle SD. I have > > nothing to share that card with. > > Same thing here. My Neos are the only devices that take microSD. > However, old-style SD would qualify if you use microSD with a > full-size SD sleeve. that's what i was thinking - the sleeve adapts it up to sd-card side. :) > For me, the main occasion where I use removable Flash media for data > exchange is when traveling and I don't have my usual infrastructure > at hand and setting up networking may be difficult. > > > Daniel mentioned camera pic transfer, > > that can be done in a flash-format-agnostic way using USB host to the > > camera without card ejection. > > That requires gphoto or similar to be installed on the Neo. Just > being able to plug in an SD card is certainly easier if you're not > prepared. > > > I siad that Samba would suck badly and always caused me trouble and to > > expose the SD card as USB mass storage device. But you pointed out that > > this is a block-level thing that would conflict with any mount in the > > device. > > If the storage area shared at the block level could be unmounted > during this, access conflicts could be avoided. this is what the n800 does - and my motorola rokr e6. although i really think its a nasty hacky thing. i'd rather try the samba/nfs route (offer both samba and nfs and windows users get their file sharing - and unix/mac guys get theirs! :) let the community tune/fix samba - we just get ti to raw "kind of works" state) > I may be possible to make concurrent block-level access work (for > some definition of "work"), or even to present a file system with > an entirely different internal structure as FAT seen from the > block level. However, this seems to be more a topic for research > than for soonish deployment. > > - Werner -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
