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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: ext3 in archos?RE: ext3 in archos?
From: TP Diffenbach <rockbox_at_diffenbach.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:15:18 -0500 Re symlinks: we can also do MS-Windows style symlinking, what Windows calls "shortcuts" I provided a small api for doing just that some months ago; integrating it into rockbox wouldn't be difficult. The reason I didn't is that I think Windows shortcuts are inefficient: the shortcut file ends up being about 1K-2K in size, but for a disk holding MP3s you want a cluster size of around 16K, so each shortcut ends up wasting a lot of space. It seemed likely to me that these excessive costs would not be readily apparent to some proportion of users, so I thought that it was a misfeature to support shortcuts. I do agree that certain tracks really beg to be indexed in more than one way; I'd prefer some combination of playlists and "virtual playlists", or a database. That said, if you really want Windows shortcuts, and are willing to pay the storage costs, you'd just need my api, some smoothing it out relating to copied shortcuts, and some changes to tree.c. -----Original Message----- From: owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se]On Behalf Of Björn Stenberg Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 9:51 AM To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se Subject: Re: ext3 in archos? Chris Muth wrote: > I - and possibly many others - start Rockbox from the flash ROM. > This would be conducive to using <whatever fancy> file system. > > This would be nice. ext2 and almost certainly ext3 support linking files. > That would be nice, since if a file fits in multiple categories, one can just > hard/soft link them. Links are nice, but IMHO not nice enough to spend massive amounts of developer time (and code space) to support ext2/3 in Rockbox. Especially in light of the fact that only part of our user base can use it anyway. -- BjörnReceived on 2004-01-07 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |