Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MTP auto-mount? (Kindle Fire HD)

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 2012-09-18, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:37:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>>> mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
>>>> UBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="1949", ATTR{idProduct}=="0007",
>>>> MODE="0666" mark@c2stable ~ $
>>>>
>>>>    Anyway, it's all usable but a bit clumsy. Is there a sensible way I
>>>> can have the device recognized and mounted via rules in fstab? (Or any
>>>> other fixed file?)
>>>
>>> You could have your udev rule RUN mtpfs to mount the device. It takes a
>>> few seconds to mount it, so I'd run it with &.
>
>> Seems like a reasonable enough solution for my needs.
>
> Does jmtpfs seem to be working reliably?
>
> I just ordered a Nexus Galaxy (which uses MTP), and Google has found
> reports of flakey behavior with mtpfs.  I've heard good things about
> go-mtpfs (but you have to set up the Go compiler).
>
> And there's also gmtp...
>
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>

If mounting once and transferring 4GB of data in 6 files, unmounting
and then playing 5 minutes of video quaifies as reliable then yep,
it's reliable. ;-)

All I can say at this point is it seemed to work the way it was
advertised on the link in the first post. I'll post back over time as
I learn more. Possibly you an others who run into similar usage models
will too.

Cheers,
Mark