Re: [njbfs-devel] Is the project dead?

[<joe...@ne...>]

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 21:39, Frank Meurer wrote:
> BTW - libnjb seems to work faster.

Can you give some time measurements?

Here, njbfs is fast enough, only 15-20% slower than say PlayCenter.
njbfs can be tuned for speed. There is some extra delay in the code right=
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because the USB data is transferred in 4KB blocks (which is the page size=
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the virtual file system in the Linux kernel), disconnecting from USB,=20
reconnecting to the USB again etc. for each block! Right now, for simplic=
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the USB data transfer follows the kernel block size. Anyway, the USB data=
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be transferred at *once*, i.e. some megabytes at a single command, withou=
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interuption, called burst mode, and this is much faster. Easy from usersp=
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easy from W$ndows, but it needs some extra work in Linux kernel. But this=
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extra work is preferable. It would fit to data preprocessing. I started=20
months ago with ID3 tag processing preparing a more intelligent upload, t=
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get rid of special filenames for uploading proper MP3 files.

Cheers,
J=F6rg