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I have a Fuji camera, and there’s a new firmware update available which ‘fixes’ a potential dataloss condition by setting the max number of objects to be stored
by radicality 4y ago
I have a Fuji camera, and there’s a new firmware update available which ‘fixes’ a potential dataloss condition by setting the max number of objects to be stored per a DCF folder to be 999 from 9999.I haven’t yet updated since my workflow has a bunch of scripts which expected filenames per folder to be 4 digits.
I should update my scripts, but my immediate observation though were that this seems like a bandaid solution? And not sure if it even follows the spec, afaik it allows for up to 9999 _files_ per directory but some DCF objects can take up multiple files (eg a THM thumbnail and the JPEG).
The details on the bug are sparse too, how is MacOS not seeing data written to an SDXC card, is it corrupting it? Is it a filesystem limitation for 9999 files, or an actual Mac OS bug?
firmware - https://fujifilm-x.com/global/global-news/2022/0202_4199100/ https://fujifilm-x.com/global/global-news/2022/0202_4199100/
spec for how things are named - https://www.jeita.or.jp/japanese/standard/book/CP-3461B_E/#target/page_no=42 https://www.jeita.or.jp/japanese/standard/book/CP-3461B_E/#t...
- iggldiggl 4y ago> Is it a filesystem limitation for 9999 files, or an actual Mac OS bug? Wikipedia claims that exFAT supports 2,796,202 files per directory. So to me that reads like some sort of filesystem driver bug. Either the camera isn't following the exFAT spec correctly and by chance both Windows and Linux happen to tolerate that behaviour and macOS doesn't, or conversely there's some sort of bug in the macOS exFAT implementation. You'd hope that in that situation Fuji would have double-checked its exFAT implementation, so maybe it is indeed a macOS bug?