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Hello, maintainer here. Happy to see this little project on the front page of HN. Unfortunately it hasn't received the appropriate attention from me lately, mai

by spion 2y ago

Hello, maintainer here. Happy to see this little project on the front page of HN. Unfortunately it hasn't received the appropriate attention from me lately, mainly because of the difficulties of running tests (and the android emulator) on GH action runners. Attempt to add some basic tests can be found here https://github.com/spion/adbfs-rootless/pull/62 https://github.com/spion/adbfs-rootless/pull/62 This submission motivated me to check out the latest state of virtualization in GHA and it looks like GH shipped it for all linux runners https://github.com/actions/runner-images/discussions/7191#discussioncomment-9018826 https://github.com/actions/runner-images/discussions/7191#di... - so it might be possible to get that PR working now.

Neywiny 2y ago
Hi maintainer, can you please outline the differences in functionality between using this on a rooted vs non-rooted device? Thank you
- spion 2y ago
  I've never used it with a rooted device! :) I don't think there should be any significant difference in funcitonality, other than perhaps the set of directories accessible. In general, you should be able to access anything that you can view / access using `adb shell ls`, `adb pull` and `adb push`
  - Neywiny 2y ago
    Understood, thanks. I thought there was some exploit or something in play.
    - spion 2y ago
      Nothing that exciting, I'm afraid.
qot 2y ago
Thank you for writing this. I use it routinely to back up my phone by mounting it and then simply running rsync.
- cyberpunk 2y ago
  Am I missing something? Your phone isn’t using encrypted storage?
  - LoganDark 2y ago
    Encrypted storage is an implementation detail of the filesystem. Once you're at the point of connecting an unlocked phone to a computer running ADB, you can just transfer files and not care about whether or not the underlying data is encrypted at rest.
- replete 2y ago
  Are you rooted? Have you ever tried restoring a backup in this way? Backup on android (without Google Services' online) is awful, SeedVault exists but has issues.
politelemon 2y ago
Hi there do you think adbfs could work with adb over TCP (wifi)?
- politelemon 2y ago
  Answer - yes it can. Pair over TCP like normal, connect to it, then follow the README. ``` adb pair xxx:xxx adb connect yyy:yyy adb devices mkdir -p testhere ./adbfs testhere ls testhere ```
andrewshadura 2y ago
Can't you somehow run adb on real Linux?

by spion 2y ago

Neywiny 2y ago

Hi maintainer, can you please outline the differences in functionality between using this on a rooted vs non-rooted device? Thank you

spion 2y ago
I've never used it with a rooted device! :) I don't think there should be any significant difference in funcitonality, other than perhaps the set of directories accessible. In general, you should be able to access anything that you can view / access using `adb shell ls`, `adb pull` and `adb push`
- Neywiny 2y ago
  Understood, thanks. I thought there was some exploit or something in play.
  - spion 2y ago
    Nothing that exciting, I'm afraid.

qot 2y ago

Thank you for writing this. I use it routinely to back up my phone by mounting it and then simply running rsync.

cyberpunk 2y ago
Am I missing something? Your phone isn’t using encrypted storage?
- LoganDark 2y ago
  Encrypted storage is an implementation detail of the filesystem. Once you're at the point of connecting an unlocked phone to a computer running ADB, you can just transfer files and not care about whether or not the underlying data is encrypted at rest.
replete 2y ago
Are you rooted? Have you ever tried restoring a backup in this way? Backup on android (without Google Services' online) is awful, SeedVault exists but has issues.

politelemon 2y ago

Hi there do you think adbfs could work with adb over TCP (wifi)?

politelemon 2y ago
Answer - yes it can. Pair over TCP like normal, connect to it, then follow the README. ``` adb pair xxx:xxx adb connect yyy:yyy adb devices mkdir -p testhere ./adbfs testhere ls testhere ```

andrewshadura 2y ago

Can't you somehow run adb on real Linux?