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Need help installing wikipedia - cluster size problem

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cool_walking_:
Tar is like sort of like .zip, .rar, etc. in the Windows world, except it does no compression.  It's very common in the Unix world, and is mostly combined with gzip or bzip2 (compression programs) so you end up with a file named blah.tar.gz or blah.tar.bz2.  I was thinking of having tar implemented transparently into the file browser, like KDE's KIOslaves, or Windows Explorer's ZIP file browser, so you navigate into the .tar file as if it were a directory.  I have no idea how feasible this is, but I thought it sounded good because it can also be used for images, etc.

Multiplex:
Yeah, I ended up asking my brother (also a Rockbox user), I see the logic behind adding an archive reader into a filesystem.
My concern about efficiency remains though.
In the Rockbox environment a linear search through the file (even skiping from herader to header)  has a relatively high cost (Ultimately in battery life) - note how long it takes Windows to open a ZIP file as a subdirectory... (not that I understand that - I thought that ZIP held some kind of directory listing - it aught to be possible to go straight to that).

@Lala - how do you get the files in your text format ?
I may have a play with various file formats (on a PC) to assess efficiency of access
I suppose someone should also ask why? - are you allowed to take music players into exams ;-)

Didgeridoohan:
Isn't there a patch (or two) for putting wikipedia on your DAP? Try doing a search for wikipedia on flyspray...

cool_walking_:
Maybe I'm a little (or a lot) late, but I just realised you could use HAVE_MULTIVOLUME to let Rockbox access multiple partitions.

http://rockbox.org/wiki/BigDisk

froggyman:
OR you could just use FS#4755 and have ability to search and follow links

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