Re: 2.6.0, cdrom still showing directories after being erased

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > mount
> > umount
> > cdrecord -blank
> > mount
> > see old data
> > 
> > That looks pretty bad. If there's no other solution, we might just
> > document it, but...
> 
> I think cdrecord should be hacked to complain loudly if the device is
> already mounted.  Regardless of the device cache not being cleared,
> (which is a firmware bug, in my opinion), blanking a mounted device is
> usually not what the user intended.  This is not a kernel problem as
> such, and should be dealt with in userspace.

But it is _not_ mounted at that point. User did no mistake.
								Pavel

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