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From: R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5 MTP failure
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:40:23
Message-Id: CAAD4mYjhTmfQ_OUY2UvkUPa_k5490XHSSp_r+4wBq8rfBcB80w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5 MTP failure by Neil Bothwick
1 On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 1:26 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:29:14 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
3 >
4 >> Android and iphones can be accessed as a USB drive. Doesn't this work?
5 >
6 > No they can't, at least not the modern Android phones. allowing two
7 > systems to mount the same filesystem is a recipe for disaster. That's why
8 > we have MTP, which would be the perfect answer... if it worked reliably.
9 >
10
11 As it used to be implemented the phone would simply freeze. For some
12 reason this was seen as unacceptable. SSH helper is very interesting,
13 though.