On 15/7/20 1:11 am, Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen wrote: > I believe I have at some point managed to mount a phone as storage, but not > recently.
I think the issue is that for it to expose the block device to the USB host, it must first unmount it from the device (otherwise hilarity ensues as the two OS kernels stomp on one another writing to it). If an application on the phone has a file on that block device open, it can't unmount it. Rather than battle that, they've gone the "file sharing" route, using Media Transfer Protocol. Kinda sucky compared to NFS or CIFS (or better yet, rsync/ssh, scp or sftp), but it's what we have to work with. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. Help fund COVID-19 research: https://stuartl.longlandclan.id.au/blog/2020/04/20/who-covid19/
