Okay, new FAQ entry in place.

Perhaps it should give a rough time estimate? People's capacity for patience seems to vary widely . How about a sentence like, "If it has taken more than about a minute for every 2Gb -- say, 20 minutes for a 40Gb player -- then you might have an actual problem, but otherwise you probably don't." ?

It is all a bit rubbish on our part, really; we'll do better post-2.0. We'll almost certainly integrate ext3, for one thing.

Peter