Re: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio/In...)


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Re: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio/In...)




>>From: "ns [despuqué]" <worldsnow@hotmail.com>
>> although I think it will be a write once type of thing, or
>>"concatonate" files on the end...
>
>Allocation table scanning as I outlined should be
>easy to perform, and would keep down the requirement
>for free space defragmentation.  It also allows for
>song deletion without taking a big hit in storage
>space.

Makes it SSSLLLOOOWWW though since the AVR doesn't have swap space for the
current sector.  :)


>> if it gets big enough then there will
>>definately be relocation software, that is "defrag" sofware.
>
>As I mentioned, defragmentation could be as simple
>(and time consuming) as a backup and restore, or
>it could be done periodicly, when fragmented free
>space reaches a certain percentage (which the player
>could calculate at the users request, along with
>largest contigious block and percentage of total
>space used).

Not possible from the player.  It would cost too much if I added external DRAM.

Grant


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