using the openmoko neo101 in mass storage mode

[Rahul Joshi]

A minimal ftp server providing anonymous access on $DOMAIN seems feasible
especially if one wants a gui to operate on files without the hassle of
client joining a domain, user/group permissions etc. (as in with samba?)

OR

Nothing would beat rsync/cwRsync on (maybe cygwin) if it were just about
data synchronization.

Rahul J

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:

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> | On Fri, May 30, 2008 10:09 am, Andy Green wrote:
> |
> |> ~ But not mass storage: this operates in block mode and requires
> complete
> |> ownership of the storage by the host then (since if we have it mounted
> |> too, we will write conflicting things to directory structures, etc).
> |
> | Could we emulate a block device, so that Windows thinks it has sole
> | ownership of a USB block device with a FAT32 FS on it, but for every
> block
> | access call it makes we intercept the call, figure out what file windows
> | is trying to read or write to, make the corresponding change to our local
> | files (on and ext3 volume), and return emulated results back to windows.
> |
> | I dare say windows would get confused if I file it had cached got changed
> | by Linux, but the user could probably put up with that.
>
> This was proposed before, but it sounds horrible to me.  Linux knows
> already how to deal with sharing a mounted filesystem over the network,
> better to go on leveraging stuff at that layer.
>
> I don't much like Samba either but we could run a stripped down copy of
> that or lighttpd on our end of the Ethernet-over-USB connection and
> provide a solid filesystem access solution without any special projects.
> ~ We already have perl and sshd so KDE's fish:// works fine, just not
> everybody runs KDE :-)
>
> http://linuxreviews.org/kde/kde-user-persp/fish.html
>
> - -Andy
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