vfat broken in 2.6.10?

[John Richard Moser]

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Triffid Hunter wrote:
> i've seen the same problems with a fat32 partition image after an
> unclean shutdown. reading certain files would cause the filesystem to
> spontaneously become read-only with error messages similar to the ones
> you list below.

Clean umount, not unclean.  Not even removing the device, no shutdown.
I'm not damaging the filesystem except by actually using it.

It's remniscent of using NTFS with "full read-write" under Linux, where
you have lots of damage afterwards even though you didn't do anything
nasty to damage it.

> 
> my solution was to copy all the files off, rename the offending
> directory, and copy the relevant files back. unfortunately i can't
> remove the "dead" folder, as attempting to remove it sets the filesystem
> read-only :(
> 

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