Re: ext3 / ext4 on USB flash drive?

Mark Ballard <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:56:17 +0100

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> We'd like to help in software, but we can't; we have no reliable way
> of knowing most of the necessary details of this class of hardware.
> It's not exported in any way.
>
> So unfortunately we are as in the dark as you are in this case.

This is incredible, Mr Sandeen. You mean USB flash manufacturers
(what's their body - the USB Implementer's Forum?) have simply not
provided a means for software to query the underlying hardware in a
USB flash? Have software producers asked them for this?

mb.