From: Christoph Niedeggen <Niedeggen_at_gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:24:20 +0100

Thanks for your fast response! :-)

You are right, dircache was turned on after installation of Rockbox 3.8!

Obviously, this feature has turned on itself with Rockbox 3.8, since it
was always off on my device (I turned it off with the first Rockbox
version that supported it and it stayed like this until Rockbox 3.7.1).

I didn't even know anymore where this feature is turned on and off. :-)

Now i turned it off again and the disk access is normal again.
Personally I like it better this way since I don't browse too much on my
hard disk when listening to music and using Rockbox. So in the end (for
me) this setting should save a bit of battery power.


Michael Sparmann schrieb:
>> I installed it on my Archos Recorder (having used Rockbox 3.7.1 before)
>> and with the new version, there now is a hard disk access for about a
>> minute every time I start the device.
>>
>> I didn't read anything in the release notes about this new behaviour and
>> I do not see the use or advantage of this. On the other hand, it now
>> draws some more battery when starting the device which I don't like.
>>
>> What is the reason for this behaviour and is there a way to switch this
>> new feature (?) off somewhere in the menus?
>
> Sounds like what you are referring to might be dircache?
> The advantage of this is that it doesn't need to spin up the drive when
> navigating through the file system, because the directory tree is read
> to RAM upon boot. So in the end this is meant to conserve power.
> If you want to disable it, you can do so in the system settings.
>
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