[OpenIndiana-discuss] Disappearing files on FAT32 flash drive

[Reginald Beardsley]

FWIW  fsck wouldn't run on OI, but did on Sol 10 which reported a bunch of errors which were "fixed".  That left the situation that I can't delete the directories that the files disappeared from.  If I cd into them ls says 
".: no such file or directory" but an rmdir complains that the directory is not empty.

The drive has seen very little use.

--- On Fri, 12/21/12, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

> From: Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disappearing files on FAT32 flash drive
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Date: Friday, December 21, 2012, 7:21 AM
> On 2012-12-21 13:44, Dmitry Kozhinov
> wrote:
> > It's time to invent a mirrored ZFS-based flash
> drive...
> 
> Make a single-disk pool on the flash and set copies=3? ;)
> 
> >> Newest drive I have.
> 
> It's not so much age that counts as the amount of use it has
> seen.
> It might take half a year or so of intensive rewrite use
> pattern
> to wear out the FAT region (as of one of my samples, on
> older
> smaller flashes - newer may use a finer tech process and be
> less
> robust).
> 
> 
> 
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