chill wrote: > I did notice the checksum method, but I assumed that the extra CPU > cycles would be significant, since it will have to calculate checksums > for large audio files on both drives, whereas the size/time check is a > relatively quick check of a couple of file attributes. It already takes > my Pi Zero W about 12 minutes to determine that nothing needs to be > updated! Maybe I should try it anyway. > > Maybe I should just use a disk format more suited to Linux. I started > out with the intention of being as compatible as possible across > different operating systems, but I'm not sure that's really necessary - > I'll always have something that can read a Linux disk.
Checksumming will really slow syncing down - in order to calculate the checksums, each file has to be completely read. Try using the exfat file system - nearly as universally supported as fat32, 10ms timestamps. Or, if this isn't a requirement anymore, just use ext4. SW: 'Web UI for LMS' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98186-Announce-Alternative-Web-Interface-(beta)) | 'Playlist Editor / Generator' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108199-Announce-LMS-Playlist-Editor) | 'Music Classification' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108278-Announce-Essentia-Integration-music-classification-(moods-genres-)) | 'Similar Music' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108495-Announce-LMSmusly-play-similar-music) | 'LMSlib2go' (https://www.nexus0.net/pub/sw/lmslib2go/) HowTos: 'build a self-contained LMS' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?99648-Howto-build-a-self-contained-LMS) | 'Ogg Opus' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107011-Howto-play-Ogg-Opus-files) | 'Bluetooth/ALSA' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107230-Howto-Bluetooth-streaming-to-from-LMS-(ALSA-only-no-PulseAudio)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56808 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110496 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
