On 07/18/2012 12:18 PM, M. Fioretti wrote:
the folder that I am backing up contains <25k files total, in lots of folders and subfolders, and afaik the max number of files for vfat (both 16 and 32) is well above that number
How many of those files/folders are being put in the root directory of the drive? I'm not sure about vfat, but I do know that on a FAT filesystem the root directory is limited to one cluster, limiting the number of files you can put there. Directories in subdirectories, however, are extendable as needed. (This is one reason Windows started putting all programs in C:\Program Files; every program wanted to create its own directory and this way you weren't going to run out of entries.)
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