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

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:26 PM, David
Weinehall<david.weinehall at nokia.com> wrote:
> On ons, 2009-09-09 at 15:20 +0200, ext Henrik Hedberg wrote:
>> Marius Vollmer wrote:
>>
>>     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!

Perhaps samba or webdav or sshfs , mpd are possible without unmounting
the block device ? Also a virtual virtual fat implemented as fuse
really sounds like a crazy project.


Greetings