Thomas Schmitt: > Hi, > > kAt wrote: >> All I can say is that I feel honored that some useful code was produced >> with my problem statement as an inspiration. > > Whether it's useful will still have to turn out. :) > Up to now it has one happy user.
I think being able to use a thumb-stick as a hard disk has some use. While trying to understand this and experiment I am trying to find out what firmware works with this medium and what it really does. I suspect the chips are the same memory chips one finds in a ddr/dram with some code that manages to store stuff in the chips and read/write them. The issue of where disruption of current erases the one while it does not affect the other I think it is more of an issue of what firmware erases dram (or video memory) and not what retains data on a thumb stick. Most of the references I found on the topic was about old window tricks of using a USBstick as additional Ram. > I am pondering about the partition table mess since quite a while. > On the one hand it is what has been tested to halfways work since years. > (Although recently an 8 year old isohybrid bug was discovered which > prevents very old BIOSes from booting off the stick. So the testing > cannot have been all that intense and dilligent.) > On the other hand it just violates specs and software expectations. I understand that xorriso was meant for writing cd/dvd mediums and some additional code made it able to write the same images on USB drives. If a decompressed image of a system takes up 3Gb and you are using an 8Gb disk why is it not consistent that you can partition and format the rest of it? Why would live image makers vary so much in the way they do this? I think the vast majority of users are not really interested in the details but functionality, so anything that promotes this consistent functionality would be widely on demand. It seems as tails is a project on the right direction. A reliable system that boots up anywhere and allows you to easily encrypt and decrypt data all contained in a thumb stick. Within this encrypted disk space which seems essential for tails to be of any use, vmachines can exist with real system functionality which tails lacks. Now imagine what you can do with the whole hard disk being encrypted with a tails-stick being the key to open it up. > It's a mine field........ > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas U2
