On Thursday 28 of April 2011 16:00:53 Digby Tarvin wrote: > > at some point i had that crazy idea to have a pendrive formatted in ext3 > > or nilfs2, with small auxiliary partition with a virtual machine -- and > > use the virtual machine as a filesystem server when on hostile OS. > > Not a bad idea, but you probably want an intelligent device able to > run the virtual machine itself (in which case it isnt really virtual), > otherwise you are limited to hostile os's with virtual machine support. > > Perhaps a file server on a wireless or usb equipped smart phone... > I have a small wireless hotspot that also can serve files from an > optional MicroSD.
funny thing, my current pendrive (which really is nokia n900 phone) has abundance of powerful hardware -- cpu, ram and 32GB + microSD block storage. you got me fantasizing. 9p served over usb (either directly, as mentioned recently in somebody's post about registering usb ids), or over tcp/ip over usb would be cool. if only various OSes interfaced with that easily. another silly, but perhaps doable, approach could be to make the phone serve either ext2/ext3 or fat, translated on-the-fly from whatever's the underlying fs. as in, the (say) fat would not reside literally on the device, but relevant parts would be generated on-demand by the phone in its ram and presented as a blockdevice over usb mass storage proto. in a way, a reverse of typical p9 fileserver -- read files, serve filesystem image. um, how crazy is that? -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] ``In other news, STFU and hack.'' mahmud, in response to Erann Gat's ``How I lost my faith in Lisp'' http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2308816
