misc/86587: rm -r /PATH fails with lots of small files

[Jochen Gensch]

>Number:         86587
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       rm -r /PATH fails with lots of small files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 26 09:50:15 GMT 2005
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jochen Gensch
>Release:        No Release
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>Environment:
FreeBSD incmc.da-butze.uga 6.0-BETA5 FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5 #0: Sat Sep 24 23:59:13 CEST 2005     incmc at incmc:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL  i386
>Description:
If I try to delete lots of small files on a FAT32 partition the rm command fails after some minutes with the following message:

SU NB /:rm -r /mnt/oo-install/
rm: fts_read: No such file or directory

You can reexecute the command and it will continue deleting for the same amount of time again.
>How-To-Repeat:
Extract lots of source code, for instance OpenOffice into a (Fat32 only?) folder an try to delete it by running "rm -r /PATH_TO_FOLDER"
>Fix:

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