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by fuzzix 4261 days ago
But it doesn't work like "rsync/scp/sftp over USB". No seek or partial transfer support makes it a dog. Very poor cross-platform support makes it a terrible choice.
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gambiting 4261 days ago
It is still a million times better choice than mounting the device directly as a block device.
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fuzzix 4261 days ago
A read only block device would have been better and would actually work on non-Windows OSes.
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yincrash 4261 days ago
You only read from your external storage and never write to it, from the computer?
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fuzzix 4258 days ago
Sure, with an option to enable write with the usual "omg ur apps!" warning.
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