[maemo-developers] Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

[From: David Weinehall]

On ons, 2009-09-09 at 15:20 +0200, ext Henrik Hedberg wrote:
> Marius Vollmer wrote:
> 
> > It will be hardcoded, but I think it is still negotiable.  The partition
> > itself is actually 2 GB, but it is also used for the Meta Tracker
> > database and other things.
> > 
> > What about making it 4 GB?  Would that feel big enough?
> 
>     2 GB, 4 GB... I think there is always an issue when it is hard coded.
> 
>     Why is the ancient VFAT and fixed partitioning still used? Would it 
> be possible to partition eMMC into one big ext3 partition and just use 
> some kind of loopdevice or similar when exposing a part of it as an USB 
> storage in VFAT format? That way also the annoying "not mounted right 
> now" issue would be fixed, since an USB host and the device could use 
> the same files at the same time. I do not see technical limits, but 
> maybe someone should just code a relevant kernel module (the virtual 
> VFAT loopdevice ;) if that does not exist.

Patches happily accepted!


regards: David