On 2014-08-11, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> What MTP allows is parallel access between the MTP protocol server in
> the phone and the rest of the phone (OS and apps). In order to mount
> a partition as a USB mass storage device, it has to first be unmounted
> by the Android system. That's OK for an SD card that doesn't contain
> anything important required by the Android system, but it means that
> you can't mount the "system" partition without shutting down the phone
> completely.
Another important reason for not presenting the phone's built-in flash
as a USB mass storage device is that it requires you to use a
brain-dead broken-as-designed Microsoft filesystem left over from the
days of 360K floppy disk drives -- otherwise Windows won't know what
to do with it.
It's _possible_ to build an Android phone tht runs an DOS file system
(and IIRC people have done it) but it introduces all sorts of
security, reliability, and performance problems.
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