Re: USB-OTG enabled phone mount desktop partitions via USB port

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I hope I could do that too.

However I imagine it will be hard to get a compatible memory card with
is, say, 16GB/32GB, and insert it into a main stream phone. Or is my
assumption wrong here?

Thanks.

Suli

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, 杨苏立 Yang Su Li wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have noticed this mailing list has been intensively used to discuss
>> patch development discussion. So please let me know if I should move
>> my question to more appropriate places.
>>
>> In order to experiment something I need to pretend that my phone has a
>> super fast SD card (faster than what is available in the market). So I
>> want to simulate it through desktop ramdisk (which is basically disk
>> in memory). And here is basically my plan:
>>
>> 1. Get an USB-OTG enabled phone (say Samsung galaxy nexus)
>>
>> 2. Connect this phone to a desktop via USB.
>>
>> 3. Naturally this phone will have some kind of USB driver running.
>>
>> 4. In the desktop I run the File-backed Storage Gadget (FSG), which
>> make an USB host to be an USB slave, and presents a block device
>> interface to the host which is backed by a ramdisk.
>>
>> 5. In the phone, mount the FSG mass storage just as an ordinary disk.
>
> Instead of going to all this trouble, why not just create a ramdisk on
> the phone itself?  Then you can pretend that the ramdisk is a
> super-fast SD card.
>
> Alan Stern
>



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