What does not? (with alternatives to FUR)

(Again) please, see the disclaimer of liability first: i don't have money for lawyers so i will put it simple: i coded FUR with the intent of doing something good for me and you as well, but if it will damage you in any way, i will not pay.

I've never been able to test the thing on a WM5 device (mostly because I've not been able to set up the connection with the Synce tools, but i didn't gave any feedback to the project, therefore shame on me) and now that the release 0.10.0 is out, im not (yet) able to connect my rx1950. Maybe im doing it wrong: im not complaining.

The result, however, is that i have no idea about how FUR works with WM5 devices. I don't see reasons why it shouldn't work, however.

Files attributes are not really supported: permissions are all assumed rwx for everything: if you try to write or read on the (mostly system) files which doesn't allow that, you end up with a (non descriptive) error.

Same thing (but more) about strange files attributes like "compressed", "system" and "ram" that i found on the RAPI specification and about what i have no clue: i simply assume that they don't exist at all.  Just be a nice guy/girl, and don't go messing in the /windows directory, ok?! ;-)

A final note about performances: i didn't tried to speed up FUR (well, really i did, but then i remembered the old saying "first make it compile, then make it work, then optimize it" and I'm still on step 2) therefore there's no cache yet and moreover the way in which FUSE inherently works (breaking a file copy into seek, small read, small write, seek and so on...), at least the old version I've used (though i don't thing there is anything like a "file copy" at the kernel level...), implies that FUR will always be slower than high level utilities like raki, synce or the command line tools (pcp,pls and so on) that work at high level and do only a couple of RAPI calls to copy a file (get the descriptor, read all the data, close the descriptor): if you want simply to move files around, my advice is to simply use them.

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 before mentioned programs (which are probably more stable than FUR as well).

I'd like also to mention SynceFS, a file system created by Laurent Vivier by modifying coda. The developer seems to be quite active (more than i am at least :-() and it's creation (that provide the same capabilities that fur does i think) is quite worth being tried.


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