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

[From: Till Harbaum / Lists]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch 09 September 2009 schrieb Henrik Hedberg:
> 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 
"Exposing via USB" just means "allow it to be mounted from USB". I still
don't see how this allows you to have it mounted internally via loopback
at the same time.

Whatever you do, you'll end up with two systems mounting the same
filesystem simultaneously which IMHO just isn't possible.

The only solution imho is to have _one_ machine doing the actual 
filesystem and the other other one doing file-based io via the first
machines file system drivers. E.g. as nfs/samba/scp or some clever 
"fake vfat fuse" thing which sounds to be everything but trivial to do.

Perhaps it's time think about threating the device like a NAS rather than 
a usb mass storage device. NAS devices have become mainstream 
enough that normal people are supposed to set them up and 
be able to use them.

Till