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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: ext2fsRe: ext2fs
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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 > -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage!Received on 2003-04-27 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |