On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 02:37:34PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On 17 Sep 2012 16:15, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I've orphaned this package. There are various > > reasons for this: > > > > (1) It's buggy: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/bugs/mtpfs > > > > (2) Upstream is not responsive. The weight of developer effort seems > > to have moved to several alternative projects, and it's probably > > worthwhile adopting one of these and deprecating mtpfs. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841260#c1 > > > > (3) I don't use it any more. I just gave up trying to get files off > > Android tablets. WTF don't they support USB mass storage like every > > other thing out there? > > My understanding is that its so both the phone and computer can read/write > to the filesystem at the same time. It was needed to be able to move apps > to secondary storages amongst other things. Right - I knew there was a reason for this. It's because USB mass storage exposes the disk as blocks, whereas MTP exposes it as files. Thanks for setting me right Peter! Anyway, mtpfs - please someone take it over, fix it, kill it, or package one of the alternatives. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
