Re:Apple Stole My Music
by leephillips on Thursday May 05, 2016 @12:13PM
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Interesting. Is there a way to bypass this and mount the phone as an ordinary filesystem, as in the old days?
Depends on the device. Some offer it, some don't. And those that offer it run into the issue of having partitioned internal storage.
The one benefit of MTP is that Android do not have to unmount the FS you are trying to access.
Re:Apple Stole My Music
by Natanael_L on Thursday May 05, 2016 @12:27PM
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You need a Linux kernel that offers the feature over the USB port
First off, file access is mediated via software on the Android side. What you are seeing is a database representation of the device FS. And this database can be incorrect (people have in the past deleted folders they thought were empty only to lose files) or used to implement DRM.
Second, it is bloody slow.