[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://hands.com/~phil/"
 nickname="fil"
 subject="still seems to be a problem with 4.20130323"
 date="2013-03-31T16:49:47Z"
 content="""
Hi Joey,

Seems that I can still get this to choke on a VFAT system:

    poker% sudo mount -o loop,gid=25,fmask=0117,dmask=0007 /home/phil/nobackup/annextest-image/vfat-annex-test.img /mnt 
    poker% mount | grep /mnt                                                                                      
    /home/phil/nobackup/annextest-image/vfat-annex-test.img on /mnt type vfat (rw,relatime,gid=25,fmask=0117,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)        
    poker% cd /mnt 
    poker% git init                                                                                               
    Initialized empty Git repository in /mnt/.git/
    poker% git annex init simple\ test
    init simple test 
      Detected a crippled filesystem.
    
      Enabling direct mode.
    ok
    (Recording state in git...)
    poker% for i in $(seq 1 42) ; do echo $i > $i.txt ; done
    poker% git annex add *.txt
    add 10.txt (checksum...) ok
    add 11.txt (checksum...) ok
    ...
    add 40.txt (checksum...) ok
    add 41.txt (checksum...) ok
    add 42.txt (checksum...) 
    git-annex: /mnt/.git/annex/objects/Wj/56: createDirectory: does not exist (No such file or directory)
    failed
    add 4.txt (checksum...) ok
    add 5.txt (checksum...) ok
    add 6.txt (checksum...) ok
    add 7.txt (checksum...) ok
    add 8.txt (checksum...) ok
    add 9.txt (checksum...) ok
    (Recording state in git...)
    git-annex: add: 1 failed
    poker% ls -ld /mnt/.git/annex/objects/[wW][jJ]
    drwxrwx--- 3 root floppy 4096 Mar 31 17:21 /mnt/.git/annex/objects/wJ
    poker% git annex version  
    git-annex version: 4.20130323

perhaps I shouldn't be trying that anyway -- I was wanting to create a direct mode repo on each of my camera's SD cards, which the camera will happily ignore, but allows me to add new photos to the repo by plugging the card into my laptop, and then copy them elsewhere using git annex magic.  I'm hoping that would allow me to leave favourite photos on the camera, for showing off photos when without my laptop, while not becoming confused about which photos I've already got copies of and can safely delete (with annex's drop telling me when I try to delete things I shouldn't).

The reason not to use a special directory remote (at least I think this is right judging from the wiki info) is that the camera won't grok the filenames under .git/annex/... so the photos need to be left with their names as created by the camera.

Anyway, while experimenting with that idea, I bumped into the above, which seems like a continuation of this bug.

_Update:_  Just tried that again, having cloned the git and rebuilt locally, and I'm still seeing the same behaviour with the very latest (i.e. 11b3942ef2aa13fe38d79e91392fc43d65a7e019)
"""]]