En réponse à Gregor Rosenauer <rosenauer@xxxxxx>:
> François wrote:
> [slow FAT-driver]
> > Yeah... even more with dma disabled because of a shitty VIA IDE
> chipset...
> you can force enable DMA - which chipset are you using? It seems to work
> here, according to idestatus.
That what I did first when installing beos...
But thenI got fed up with the cracks in audio whenever rendering a frame in
Opera, or resuming a download in BeShare...
(hmm, wondering if I tried disabling real-time a/v...)
> > What would it take to improve it ? better cahing ?
> Yes, and accessing of files is also very slow - it takes a while to
> bring up folder-contentsm, and it takes a long time for MediaPlayer
> before playback starts (new MediaPlayer from MediaKit Beta, which
> doesn't read the entire file), and then after 2-3 secs smooth playing,
> it takes a while to bring up the next part...
This has to do with the mpeg.extractor, which instead of reading the file
directly spawns an "mpegscanner" thread, that takes the CPU anyway until it has
read it entirely.
Not sure the filesystem plays anything here.
> > Or is the long name lookup an issue ?
> don't think so...
> But I get weird errors in Windows sometimes ("this file has been edited
> externally and cannot be deleted" or sth like that).
I assume you mean the odd characters BeOS allows you to have in filenames,
that windows dislikes ? maybe renaming them should work.
> [BSF for Win]
> > This has been done already.
> Whoa?! Where can I get it? Hope it's NT-compatible? :)
Hmm, read this:
http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=openbeos&restrict=&exclude=&method=and&format=builtin-long&sort=score&words=vbfs
> With write-support, I could finally format my data-disk with BFS and
> have my MP3s/OGGs attributed, smooth playback etc...
