On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Edd Barrett wrote:
> The directory made has been truncated msdos style. "a_frag~1".

quoted text
> Therefore when cp tries to copy files into the new directory, it can't

> find the new filename.

>

> The workaround is to do something like this, with a shorter filename

> ---8<---

> # cp -R a_fragile_hope /mnt/usb/a

> ---8<---

While this is a workaround, mounting it with "-l" parameter (mount_msdos

-l) should be the proper solution. Of course, unless you need to keep the

filenames short.
On the other hand, one would expect the filesystem code to truncate the

filename before actually trying to open a file on such a filesystem. I

think that Msoft designed it that way. Currently, you create a file and

cannot stat it immediately afterwards. Oh, and a different new file has

appeared there in the meantime! I think it shouldn't work this way. Is it

a valid assumption?
Regards,

David