Re: USB storage emulation

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> Is there any way currently to connect two computers via usb cable and
>> have one of them pretend to be a usb storage device for the other?
>
>Without special hardware, no.
>With special hardware, yes.

Storage devices usually have a fixed disk size, but when you want to 
export "/" through a storage device, this becomes a bit problematic, 
since one can resize the partition online, mount subtrees, etc. etc. Better 
try Ethernet-over-USB and some sort of networked filesystem.


Jan Engelhardt
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