Thread: [Under consideration] More efficient and flexible use of internal flash
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titan is offline titan
2009-12-29 , 23:35
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#16
Originally Posted by javispedro View Post
You can very easily do it yourself on the device. I think the ability to still do that and choose whatever filesystem you want is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than Nokia changing something that works pretty well _right now_.
I don't understand your motivation for posting ultra-conservative posts in this thread.
This a brainstorm thread where some people discuss the pros and cons of possible
solutions to a problem. Not everyone might have that problem but WE do.
It's not up to us whether Nokia will implement one of our solutions in future devices
or even the N900, but here we can try to find with a good solution and suggest it to Nokia
or try to implement it in the community.

Yes, you can do quite a lot with N900 and there many ways to shot yourself into the foot
and brick your device. One of them is repartitioning, which is NOT trivial.
In fact, you can also do a lot things with crippled Android devices or Iphones if you root them. BUT some people bought the N900 hoping to get a real Linux mobile computer out of the box. We don't want to run dangerous hacks just to get something useable.

I am pretty disappointed by the default partitioning scheme and the fact that the standard
applications hardcode the MyDocs FAT partition ($HOME is not visible to them).
I cannot trick them to use files on my large ext3 partition as not even bind or symlinks seem to work in MyDocs.
So the MyDocs partition does NOT work pretty well right now!

I can do most of these now, in the 2GiB ext3 partition and the 256 MiB OneNAND. And if the sizes worry you, you can repartition, which works _better_ than the loop file. And you don't get to confuse users when they ask where their 32 GiB are.
Can you give us ANY evidence why a loop file is bad?
Do you think the 256MB root + 2GB home is not confusing?
Again, what's the difference between a 25GiB MyDocs file in a 27GiB ext3 partition and a 25GiB MyDocs partition with a 2 GiB ext3 partition?
For average joe there would be a 27GiB FAT image and 2GB free space on ext3.
so no change for average joe but many benefits for advanced users.