What does not? (with alternatives to FUR)

At the moment i have only a HTC Dash (where FUR works fine) to test the code with: i don't have a broad picture of what happens with other devices.

A final note about performances: i didn't tried to speed up FUR very much, however being a filesystem on top of userlevel libraries implies that FUR will always be slower than high level utilities like raki, synce or the command line tools (pcp,pls and so on)

For the way it's constructed, FUR will do dozens of RAPI calls (which are the real bottleneck for the PC/PPC operations) each time you list a directory or transfer even a medium sized file (transfers are done in chunks) where the aforementioned utilities need only 1 RAPI call for each transfer. This gap is particularly evident with the old Pocket PC 2003 devices (newer ones work remarkably well).

If you don't care about the whole "i have my device on the file system" thing and you simply need a way to copy and access files on/from the Pocket PC with Linux as fast and effortless as possible, you should definitely use the aforementioned utilities (which are probably more stable than FUR as well, since better supported by the Synce team).

I'd like also to mention SynceFS, a file system created by Laurent Vivier by modifying coda: it's a kernel module, and therefore a different approach than FUR, but you might well be interested in trying it.


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