From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263101AbUBHKQM (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Feb 2004 05:16:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263125AbUBHKQM (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Feb 2004 05:16:12 -0500 Received: from mail.uni-kl.de ([131.246.137.52]:28036 "EHLO uni-kl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263101AbUBHKQK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Feb 2004 05:16:10 -0500 Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 11:15:57 +0100 From: Eduard Bloch To: John Bradford Cc: Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Mailing Lists Subject: Re: 2.6.0, cdrom still showing directories after being erased Message-ID: <20040208101557.GA25053@zombie.inka.de> References: <200402031635.i13GZJ9Q002866@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20040203174606.GG3967@aurora.fi.muni.cz> <200402031853.i13Ir1e0003202@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20040203224021.GK11683@suse.de> <1075849526.11322.9.camel@nosferatu.lan> <200402040737.i147bJqq000455@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20040205233113.GA10254@zombie.inka.de> <200402060758.i167whxX000498@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200402060758.i167whxX000498@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mailgate1.uni-kl.de id i18AG7RL020193 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Moin John! John Bradford schrieb am Friday, den 06. February 2004: > > > unmounted before an erase, when it is re-mounted, the stale data is > > > read from the device's own cache, which should have been invalidated > > > by the erase. > > > > Is it realy a hardware issue? > > I originally thought so, but maybe I was wrong. Jens posted a patch > to invalidate kernel buffers on an umount - if the problem persists > with that patch, I still believe it is a hardware fault. And I don't. One of the cdrtools Debian maintainers just wrote that the patch does NOT solve the problem with the scenario described above in the thread. Regards, Eduard. -- Die Strafe des Lügners ist nicht, daß ihm niemand mehr glaubt, sondern, daß er selbst niemanden mehr glauben kann. -- George Bernard Shaw