From: <for_spam_at_gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:56:17 +0200 (MEST)

hello,
imho i`d like to completely agree to what björn said.
there is really no need to access another fs on arjb besides fat32 and
interoperability is the most important fact.
I think most of us have absolutely no problem with archos fs being fat32 -
for an mp3-player this is really quite ok.

nevertheless - only the first primary partition needs to be be fat32.
so, put your additional ext2fs,ufs,ntfs,myfs,geekfs or whatever partition/fs

(for file/data storage) on your archos, access that from your favourite
OS, be happy and just accept that you can`t access that from rockbox.
shure you can implement your own fs-driver, but don`t expect this being
supported/accepted by the rockbox crew in the near future, since there are
really more important things to do and not every idea can be put into
practice.

regards
roland

ps:
there are 298 open feature requests !



> George Michaelson wrote:
> > I put a UFS partition on the back of my ajr and can write data to it
> about
> > 2x faster than to the FAT32 partition, because NetBSD does a damn sight
> > better at caching/write-through to UFS than to FAT32.
>
> That is a netbsd issue, not a rockbox issue...
>
> > I think you may have overstated the code cost, vs the benefits a bit in
> > FAT32s favour. I've probably tended the other way.
>
> If I'd had the luxury of choosing file system, fat32 would still be my
> choice. Why? One word: interoperability. There is no other suitable file
> system that is supported on so many platforms.
>
> Your arguments center around powerful computers, not the actual device
> we're discussing. Speed? The archos is an MP3 player, it needs to load a
> megabyte per minute. Block optimization? 99% of all files stored on the
disk are
> several megabytes each. Crash proof? We hardly ever write to the file
> system.
>
> And any argument about code size is null and void since we will always
> need the fat32 code to read the boot disk. So even a 2 KB driver is 2 KB
more
> than today.
>
> --
> Björn
>

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Received on 2003-04-27