Re: [Bug] vfat: Not a git archive

From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Jun 2, 2008, 10:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20080602103909.GB11287@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <873anwt9ya.fsf@debian.erik.com>

Thomas Christensen wrote (2008-06-02 12:20 +0200):

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> I am having this issue on Debian with kernel 2.6.25 (2.6.24 works fine)
> and git 1.5.5.3.
> 
>   $ git push /media/KINGSTON/foo.git
>   fatal: '/media/KINGSTON/foo.git': unable to chdir or not a git archive
>   fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> 
> A notable difference between these 2 kernels is this line:
> 
>   [   62.575939] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT
>   filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
> 
> which appears in 2.6.25.
> 
> If this bug should be filed against Debian I will do so.

Hmm, for example KDE automatically mounts VFAT filesystems with mount option "utf8" when using UTF-8 locale. VFAT uses UTF-16 in filenames and the only way to convert filenames losslessly (apart from the case insensitive issue) between Linux and VFAT is to use UTF-8 locale in Linux. I have described the subject in the Debian bug #417324:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417324

What locale are you using? What mount options did you use when you mounted the /media/KINGSTON/ filesystem?