From: Chris Muth <rockbox_at_muth.cc>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:06:55 -0600

This is sort of addressed in the "FAQ - Features We Will Not Implement"
under number 9 <http://rockbox.haxx.se/docs/nodo.html#9>
"Support other filesystems than FAT32 (like NTFS or ext2 or whatever)!".

No.

Though the reason it states for this is that the Archos loads the firmware off of
the FAT32 disk. You address this, but I think it is not necessary.

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.

-Chris


On 12/28/03 at 10:08 PM Robert L. Harris wrote:

>As I sit here and watch my system re-copy all 20+ Gigs onto the FAT
>filesystem on my Archos Jukebox I wonder if it's even possible to use a
>ext3 type filesystem with proper timestamp and permissions on the
>jukebox? Maybe partition it to 5Megs for FAT to enable the loading of
>the archos.mod and the rest ext3?
>
>doing a "rsync -av --progress /mnt/data1/MP3/ /mnt/usbdrive/" gets old
>watching the whole thing run overnight.
>
>Thoughts?
> Robert
>
>
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