Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 22, 2007 06:12 PM
"In order to use a USB stick with a flash filesystem, the block device interface needs to get translated back to a Memory Technology Device, which represents a piece of flash in Linux. This double translation is hugely inefficient. If manufacturers would allow access to the raw flash chips in their devices without going through any translation, flash filesystems would become a lot more useful."
I'm sorry, but until Microsoft Windows disappears this is not going to happen.
I tried to give some files to a friend a few weeks ago by writing it to his USB flash drive. It was only after failed attempts to change permissions that I realised the device was read-only because it was NTFS formatted. My brain nearly exploded.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 22, 2007 06:12 PMI'm sorry, but until Microsoft Windows disappears this is not going to happen.
I tried to give some files to a friend a few weeks ago by writing it to his USB flash drive. It was only after failed attempts to change permissions that I realised the device was read-only because it was NTFS formatted. My brain nearly exploded.
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