erland wrote: > The general issue we need to think about when starting to attach a local > storage is that "normal" people will do stupid things. As an example, > they will disconnect a drive without power off the Wandboard, since > there isn't any power button to use to power off the Wandboard. Don't > expect "normal" people to know that you need to go into a web interface > with a web browser and select to shutdown the device before you can > remove a drive. The advantage of making it a bit complicated is that the > only people that will use it are people that hopefully know what they > are doing and understand that they need to shutdown the Wandboard before > disconnecting the drive.
I don't disagree with any of this, but just to be clear when I talked about -"As soa-aur on Arch has no normal user"- I was referring to "user accounts" on the system and not the physical user. > It's of course possible to ignore all this, but be prepared that people > who get a corrupt file system because they remove the drive in the wrong > situation are going to complain, especially when it contained the only > copy of their music library because they didn't have a proper backup. If the most likely from of local storage on a Wandboard is one, or more, USB devices, how do you instill the discipline of the correct procedure for connecting and disconnecting such devices, and overcome the disadvantage of having no power button? > Access to remote storage is good and even recommended, but I agree that > there isn't any need to be able to share it via SAMBA since it's already > shared by the remote device that contains the drive. > > Offering a preconfigured SAMBA server has the advantage that there is a > chance people connect the drive permanently instead of disconnecting it > every time they need to add new music. So I think it's a good idea to > also offer a preconfigured/preinstalled SAMBA server if we automatically > mount locally attached drives. > > An alternative to all this is to make sure the automatic mounting only > mounts drives as read-only, so there is less risk that the file system > get corrupt if the drive is abruptly disconnected, but in this case it > does not make sense to offer a SAMBA server since you wouldn't be able > to use it to upload new music anyway. There is currently no automatic mounting of locally attached storage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Krisbee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101624 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
