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It should never have taken a long time to boot unless there was a problem.


No, it wasn't rebuilding the database. That would have shown on the display. Instead, it just sat there loading the database for more than a minute. I always figured it was this problem.

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Long database builds at every boot should be completely unrelated to the dynamic data partition. In theory.


At the meet, Roger also confirmed to me that the database loading routines do not involve anything on the dynamic partition.

Still, it bugs me what could have caused this speedup (cq the previous slowdown). The only other thing that I did around the time of speedup was to try an emplode synchronisation. Normally, I use mp3tofid. The emplode sync failed, and I repaired it with another rsync run. Maybe the one emplode run did something magical on my player.

Pim