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Filesystem Problems with the Treo 650s

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the early-adopters-always-get-the-shaft dept.

Kaisa Tarasov writes "It turns out PalmOne's new Treo 650 is shipping with a major problem that's causing first adopter users and developers to cancel their orders in droves. The new Treo, along with the Tungsten T5, utilizes a new FAT based nonvolatile file system. Not only is the new system much slower, as the data has to be loaded into a SDRAM chip before running, but in this filesystem PalmOne switched from using directly addressable storage, to storage addressed in 512 Byte blocks. This has caused many files to swell in size - up to 500% in some cases (such as the address book). Users, already flustered with the small 23 MB of available memory, when trying to sync their old data onto the new device are discovering that their old data does not fit on the new Treo. What does PalmOne do?"

6 of 289 comments (clear)

  1. i h8 niggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Evil by captain+igor · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not use fat because it's evil?

  3. Reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's obvious that PalmOne started using a larger FAT cluster size to enable their OS to map and recognize greater mass storage sizes, like maybe SD or MMC cards over 1GB. Granted it's inefficient, but that's the same life we live in the PC world, it just doesn't matter with multi-GB mass storage.

    According to the specs, this thing can take SD/MMC cards, so if these people have a need to store everything under the sun, why don't they shut their cunt mouths and buy some memory?

  4. I have a treo 600, wtf did your post have to do? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Uh, as a treo 600 owner, and I love it, your post sucks. This is potentially very important information as well as an interesting discussion to many wearable computer developers.

    Nice blow job, boy, where can I get in line?

  5. Re:an excellent product by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    learn how and when to spell LOSE, for the love of God!

    Why does everyone seem to have so much trouble with this?

    If I had the means, I would LOOSE a million evil pedants upon you in order that you LOSE this annoying misconception!

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  6. FAT by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ah, FAT. The cornerstone of any modern operating system...

    That's true, but you have to remember that the FAT filesystem doesn't work very well on thin clients, for some reason.

    --
    Sincerely,
    Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
    "Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."