Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>Mh, what's "more gracefully" in the light of fs corruption? > return -EIO; In this case you wouldn't even be able to read data from the disk which is not affected by the inconsistencies. If the FS driver switches to readonly mode, that's possible at least. Personally I like such a kind of "Best effort" behaviour. Well, but I'm not the vfat32 driver developer, so who am I to argue? :-) Greetings, Gunter