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Originally Posted by knc1
I have never figured out WHY the user storage is handled this way.
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I think it was probably done that way to accurately emulate a USB flash stick. USB sticks work on devices that do not have network drivers loaded (even in the BIOS, where you can select them as a boot device). SMB shares are a PITA in windows, and depend on your security settings and whatnot. Even then, windoze boxen that can see each other, and both have file sharing enabled, still get permissions violations trying to access each others files -- ever since windoze vista, and worse on x64 systems... USB sticks are much more reliable in that regard...
In general, windows file sharing DOES NOT WORK out of the box, and even so-called "experts" (like myself) find it not worth the hassle when it used to work on a given configuration and then inexplicably no longer works. I generally pass files through an intermediary NAS device, or USB stick "sneakernet" when my windoze network shares are wonky (all too often).
I have a bunch of windows boxes, with SMB file sharing enabled, and they can pretty much NEVER all see each other at any given time.
Though some kindles (i.e. K4) do support NFS in diags, and I once successfully (and several times usuccessfully) got my K4 and linux host PC to share a common NFS-shared folder, to which both sides had rw access. I test a lot of my apps and demos in diags, because more free memory (and the K4 loads a MUCH FASTER K5-style eink driver in diags, but a slow K3-emulation eink driver in main -- or at least it was that way early on; not sure now).