Thread: [Under consideration] More efficient and flexible use of internal flash
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2009-12-29 , 23:29
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Originally Posted by titan View Post
The sectors are mapped 1:1 and writing is cached on ext3. I don't expect noticable
overhead.
Well, they're mapped 1:1, but not linearly or else the file would not be allowed to fragment. So yes, there will be overhead, but I concede the point it may not be noticeable for most use cases since the inode and pointer blocks will be cached.

Originally Posted by titan
SO FAR we have a 27GiB FAT "forever". Finding unallocated FAT sectors is so simple
that it could be done before every mount.
FINALLY some benefit to the sparse file approach. Feel free to start coding that.

Until such a software is made, I see no benefit to having a sparse FAT32 file over the current dual partition approach.
Last edited by javispedro; 2009-12-29 at 23:33.