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listening "dragged" music in the original firmware

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sadffffff:
soap: interesting read and it'd be handy to do it. but i am refering to an error in FAT filesystems, crosslinking.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/83140

which would achieve the same thing, except it would be caught by error checking utilities since its out of FAT spec, basicaly creating an error.

elborak:

--- Quote from: sadffffff on August 10, 2007, 12:35:29 AM ---soap: interesting read and it'd be handy to do it. but i am refering to an error in FAT filesystems, crosslinking.
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Which is essentially the same as a hardlink, as soap noted. However as FAT has no link count attribute, there's no way to properly support it.

sadffffff:
well you could keep a seperate database of these "links" so deleting, renaming, and moving files etc could be handled. if you wanted to make it system wide.

but the problem would still be down to the fact that this is creating filesystem errors, and I can't think of a way to remove them before going into USB mode (from the OF), which would be necessary to dodge the disk being recognised as corrupt.

for me, that would be fine, since i dont scan my player's file system all the time, and i would know enough to manage it. but it would be problematic/impossible to make official

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