WIP libusbhsfs - USB Mass Storage Class Host + Filesystem Mounter static library.

What about Mac file systems?

...I'm not even serious I was going to suggest HFS+ as a joke, then I remembered they don't even use that any more, and have got some new FS with weird virtual volumes and stuff. Seems to work nice on the internal drive but I doubt there are many pressing reasons to use it on a USB drive.

Epic work, great contribution to Switch homebrew, thanks!

 

Nice, I'm modding awoo-installer to be able to have custom themes, and now I can implement the code from tinleaf to give it usb hdd support as well. Sweet. Thanks for posting the pre-built binaries of the version that supports ntfs, I couldn't get these to build on ubuntu as I kept getting an error I had missing dependencies (patch), even though they were installed. The fat version built fine though.

 

Yep, I tried that using dkp-makepkg, that's when I got the issue with dependencies.

I followed the readme and added -lntfs-3g -llwext4 to the makefile, and manually copied the files you posted in the release page into the relevant folders in portlibs - but I get this issue:

/opt/devkitpro/devkitA64/bin/../lib/gcc/aarch64-none-elf/10.2.0/../../../../aarch64-none-elf/bin/ld: cannot find -lntfs-3g
/opt/devkitpro/devkitA64/bin/../lib/gcc/aarch64-none-elf/10.2.0/../../../../aarch64-none-elf/bin/ld: cannot find -llwext4

I can build fine using the fat version you posted - am I missing some files?

 

Thanks for updating.

Using this command works: dkp-makepkg -d -i --noconfirm

Also I think you messed up on liblwext4 as that was still asking for dependencies while using this command: dkp-makepkg -i --noconfirm, the other file worked fine.

 

Thanks, that will make life easier for noobs like me, I have spent all day trying to get tinleaf to compile properly (with ntfs), now you modded those files, I was done in a few minutes :-). Now I can get back on to other stuff, thanks again.

 

I figured out why ntfs-3g doesn't compile on mac even when skipping dependency checks.
You have to use the gnu version of make (install make from package manager) and symlink it to /usr/local/bin/make so it's used instead of the make bundled with xcode.

 

Awesome work! I'm excited to try to add this to Homebrew Details in the future. Might be cool to manage and launch homebrews on external media.

 

Thanks for all your work dude, it's an incredibly necessary library for homebrew, which will surely come to be of use in the future.

And also...

My fellow paisano, I don't think many people in this forum can understand how real the power cut thing hits.

 

Just a heads up (so you don’t make the same mistake I did!) you won’t be able to just launch an app from a hdd. As soon as your app exits, the hdds will be unmounted so now that path that nxhbl has will be invalid (ie ums0:/app.nro). The quick workaround I thought of was just to copy the nro from hdd to sd then set the path to location on sd card. This is a bit mixed because the nro could be huge so it could take a while (slow launches), it might depend on loose files like config stuff and maybe the user doesn’t want to override the app on the sd card with the one of hdd (is it exists) so maybe copying to a temp folder would be better.

but yeah not like it can’t work, just not super straight forward. But adding hdd support as a way to copy / move apps to and from storages might be a better option imo, and would still be a very nice feature

 

Yes. For app launch this should be a sysmodule.