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Originally Posted by diskette
i'd still like to try and make it faster though, so i think i'll experiment with changing the filesystem to ext
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To change the user accessible filesystem to ext or something other than FAT32, you will also need to change one of the startup scripts. That's what mounts the partition and from memory, it checks the format. There has been discussion of doing this in the past, so you should be able to search for it.
As Lucas said, the device probably loads the full book into memory, so unless it is a very large book, the I/O won't have an affect after the initial opening of the book. It is possible that the load is done for each internal file, so faster I/O might help. There are also writes to the database while reading. The current position is store plus events such as page turns. But, I have no idea when this is done. It could be for every page, or when the book is closed.
As you mentioned wanting to improve the browser speed for a particular site, I don't think the user partition is used when browsing. It isn't used for browser cache or anything. If any temporary files are used, they will be on the root partition. That is already ext3.