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authorGravatar https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnBJ6Dv1glxzzi4qIzGFNa6F-mfHIvv9Ck <Jim@web>2011-11-22 07:09:24 +0000
committerGravatar admin <admin@branchable.com>2011-11-22 07:09:24 +0000
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+I was copying files to a directory remote with `git annex copy`. Out of 114 files, 9 of them failed with no message, just:
+
+ copy data/foo.dat (to usbdrive...) failed
+ copy data/bar.dat (to usbdrive...) failed
+
+According to strace:
+
+ 31338 mkdir("/media/annex/Zp/9v/SHA256-s1362999320--d650297c8cf8c2dc0575110a52d0c5cc0ff266f294a0599f85796a6b44b23492", 0777) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
+ 31338 mkdir("/media/annex/Zp/9v", 0777) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
+ 31338 mkdir("/media/annex/Zp", 0777) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
+ 31338 stat("/media/annex/Zp", 0x7f8449f170d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
+
+The filesystem is FAT32 and has weird case semantics. This was mounted by udisks with its default options:
+
+ /dev/sdb1 on /media/annex type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec)
+
+I wonder if the directory remote should use hashDirLower instead of hashDirMixed?