Re: sd_card driver Block service prevents FFAT file system use by multiple clients?

Thank you, Norman.

I was indeed using the ffat library which was itself making the requests for a block connection. I'll change that to using the ffat filesystem server in libports when I get a few minutes.

Bob

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-----Original Message----- From: Norman Feske <norman.feske@...1...> To: genode-main@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 4:12 AM Subject: Re: sd_card driver Block service prevents FFAT file system use by multiple clients?

Hello,

On 27.01.2016 06:47, Nobody III wrote:

You're trying to make a second connection to the Block service, but you should be making a second connection to the File_system service. The Block service only provides a random-access chunk of memory, not access to files.

there are two ways of using the ffat file system: linking the ffat library (libports/src/lib/ffat), or starting the ffat server (libports/src/server/ffat_fs) and letting your client open a File_system session to the server. The latter can be done by configuring the VFS of your client as follows:

<vfs> <fs/> </vfs>

Apparently Bob has used the library, which requests a Block session directly. Using ffat_fs should do the trick.

Cheers Norman