Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Jan Engelhardt]

>
>I'm seeing even worse behavior. Since /dev/hda is a disk with mounted
>filesystems, my kernel refuses access even for root. Thus, even root
>is unable to scan the /dev/hd* devices!
>
What sort of kernel patch do you have turned on? I'd be scared if I could 
not even do a (read-only!) hexdump of my drive while mounted.


Jan Engelhardt
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