It's going to be a lot easier to patch the empeg's kernel to a later 2.2 and add ext3 than it is going to be to move to 2.4 - mainly due to memory management issues.

Worst-case, you'd just need a dummy fsck to fool the player software - but no software changes *should* be required... I think. Well, if anything the changes would just be to the init and not the actual player.

Hugo