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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: ext3 in archos?RE: ext3 in archos?
From: Michael Elsdörfer <michael_at_elsdoerfer.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:11:37 +0100 > we can also do MS-Windows style symlinking, what Windows calls "shortcuts" A bit off-topic, but I thought you might be interested: Did you know NTFS also supports hard links, at least on directories? They are called juctions, but most people don't know, as there is no interface in the Windows Explorer. I was very surprised when I found out. See a demonstration here: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se] On > Behalf Of TP Diffenbach > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 2:15 AM > To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se > Subject: RE: ext3 in archos? > > 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. > > -- > Björn Received on 2004-01-07 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |