[iyonix-support] Re: Bugs in SCSIFS?
- From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:42:16 +0200
In message <cce6a9f84e.davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dave Higton <davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...] The widest range of USB devices includes devices with varying
> numbers and types of partitions.
Of course, plus those with disk-level compression, with military
strength encryption plus steganography for plausible deniability. In
some labs you might also find devices using new formats under
development that have not been published yet. But what do the devices
look like that users come across 99% of the time? They have a single
FAT partition. Would it not make a huge amount of sense to start
supporting those and worry about all the other things later?
> I understand the Filecore/FS/ImageFS structure. I understand
> that it needs an overhaul.
Sorry, I cannot understand your point. We have a primary problem that
needs to be solved, which is accessing >2GB FAT formatted USB storage
devices. This problem can be solved with a minor extension of the
current foreign disk format identification mechanism. There is
absolutely no need for revolutionary changes. As Druck wrote it is
straightforward for such a solution to support even multiple FAT
partitions without requiring any OS level partition support. Why are
you trying to make the issue more complicated than necessary?
As you wrote earlier, partitions are so simple. So, it will be trivial
to add support for them later. There is no need to worry about them
right now, apart from making sure that the code can start reading from
a given sector number.
Martin
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