David Wright [2024-01-09 10:07:26] wrote:
> but what seems most likely is that the root directory filled up.
> The size of that is fixed when formatted, at least up to FAT16.
> Long filenames will eat it up more quickly still.
Long file names are actually kept in a (hidden) files, so they don't eat
up the directory space any more than normal file names.
(I'm talking about VFAT, here, which is the standard way to add long
file names to FAT)
to...@tuxteam.de [2024-01-09 18:14:47] wrote:
> The LFS layer on top of FAT does have some limitations: "Because the
> FAT LFN implementation is layered atop an older, more limited naming
> system, there are inevitable complications, such as if an attempt is
> made to create too many files with the same first six letters" [1].
So indeed if you have too many names in the same directory you're likely
to bump into problems (you'd hope it would signal an error rather than
silent corruption, but ...).
Of course, it's usually easy to work around the problem by spreading the
files within several directory. For ripped CDs, I'd recommend one
directory per CD (I use 2 levels: every artist gets a directory and in
that directory every album gets its own subdirectory).
Stefan
