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juiceme is offline juiceme
2013-12-12 , 07:05
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#1428
Originally Posted by Philippe View Post
The mass-storage you see is a fake mass-storage profile to trick the PC into providing 500mA to charge. Otherwise there is no way to charge for sure when connected.

If you install developer mode you will also get an RNDIS device with ssh.

Unfortunately mass-storage is a pain to work with and as such has not been retained. However it should not be insanely hard to get it to work with a fat formatted SD-card in the device.
Yes, that is true and I hate the USB-export feature with all my heart, unless used for very specific tasks like installing boot environment on a partition

The reason why it is so discusting is that if a partition is offred for low-level mounting outside the device it has to be umounted inside the device for the duration, or there'll be data inconsistency.
Making sure this works is overly complicated, you need a specific daemon to handle it and signal applications to pull out from the disk before it's umounted, or else deny the operation, and so on...

It is error prone and unnecessary since you can always use sftp/rcp/nfs/samba/whatever to transfer data over network instead.
 

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