Storing data on external drives

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 23/02/15 15:14, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 13.02.2015 14:10, Daniel Holbach wrote:
>> do we already have a plan on how to deal with storing data on external
>> drives? How can apps find out where they can read/write?
> think of this as the raspberry + external disk + mediatomb use case.
>
> Do we already have an idea how this could work?


As a straw man:

 * apps declare if they can use external storage
 * user or device vendor gets to decide which apps get to use it
 * apps get allocated an isolated space there just as they do on the
main filesystem

.. with variations for cases like exclusive use (block level allocation)
of devices to an app.

Mark