Re: 2.6.0, cdrom still showing directories after being erased

[Eduard Bloch]

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.
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