Thread: [Maemo 5] Maemo Mapper
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wotevah is offline wotevah
2010-08-03 , 20:44
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#168
I suspect the large storage requirements have a lot to do with the FAT32 filesystem used for MyDocs. The block size is 64k so each file will take 64k no matter if it is 2k or 40k.

The solution would be to either use NTFS or another storage layer on top of the filesystem like sqlite - with the drawback that you'd need to use tools to manage the cache and is less interoperable with other applications (for example, I understand cloudGPS can use the mappero tile cache).

Originally Posted by gm_w View Post
i also noticed the rather large storage area needed for maps. I downloaded about 900MB of maps, but it took 15GB of storage on n900... And i only downloaded the maps for the NE of USA. This means that the n900 can't even handle the entire USA -- it will run out of space really quick.

This is completely unacceptable to waste so much space.