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Re:ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external driv... by fuzzix on Sunday October 12, 2014 @08:32AM (#8445105)
But it doesn't work like "rsync/scp/sftp over USB". No seek or partial transfer support makes it a dog. Very poor cross-platform support makes it a terrible choice.
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Re:ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external driv... by gambiting on Sunday October 12, 2014 @09:04AM (#8445168)
It is still a million times better choice than mounting the device directly as a block device.
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Re:ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external driv... by fuzzix on Sunday October 12, 2014 @09:58AM (#8445289)
A read only block device would have been better and would actually work on non-Windows OSes.
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Re:ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external driv... by yincrash on Sunday October 12, 2014 @10:17AM (#8445337)
You only read from your external storage and never write to it, from the computer?
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Re:ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external driv... by fuzzix on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @07:42AM (#8457955)
Sure, with an option to enable write with the usual "omg ur apps!" warning.
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