Re: 2.6.0, cdrom still showing directories after being erased

[Thomas Glanzmann]

Hi,

> So the drive ought to report media changed if it knowingly over wrote
> the table of contents, for instance.

I am not so sure about this. I can't find anything describing this. But
looking at SPC-2 Section 7.25 talks only about 'becoming ready and media
changed'.

> I still think this is to be expected when mucking in undefined teritory.
> Reload the media, it's not hard... Sure you can get around this with
> snooping if you really wanted to, but IMO it's wasted effort. Add -eject
> to cdrecord command line of default config, how you want so solve it is
> not my problem.

I don't understand why the Linux kernel doesn't simply invalidates the
buffers when a CDROM media is unmounted. If this would be case no such
problems would ever occur.

	Thomas
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