erland wrote: > The general issue we need to think about when starting to attach a local > storage is that "normal" people will do stupid things. As an example, > they will disconnect a drive without power off the Wandboard, since > there isn't any power button to use to power off the Wandboard. Don't > expect "normal" people to know that you need to go into a web interface > with a web browser and select to shutdown the device before you can > remove a drive. The advantage of making it a bit complicated is that the > only people that will use it are people that hopefully know what they > are doing and understand that they need to shutdown the Wandboard before > disconnecting the drive. > > It's of course possible to ignore all this, but be prepared that people > who get a corrupt file system because they remove the drive in the wrong > situation are going to complain, especially when it contained the only > copy of their music library because they didn't have a proper backup. > > Access to remote storage is good and even recommended, but I agree that > there isn't any need to be able to share it via SAMBA since it's already > shared by the remote device that contains the drive. > > Offering a preconfigured SAMBA server has the advantage that there is a > chance people connect the drive permanently instead of disconnecting it > every time they need to add new music. So I think it's a good idea to > also offer a preconfigured/preinstalled SAMBA server if we automatically > mount locally attached drives. > > An alternative to all this is to make sure the automatic mounting only > mounts drives as read-only, so there is less risk that the file system > get corrupt if the drive is abruptly disconnected, but in this case it > does not make sense to offer a SAMBA server since you wouldn't be able > to use it to upload new music anyway.
I'm really trying to match what Touch did - which is really an ability to mount read/write, a built in samba server and nothing special to avoid corruption. I don't think this really got stress tested as the performance of the server was not very good. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101624 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
