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

["Jim Crilly" <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net>]

On 02/02/06 09:39:02PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >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.
> 

I see the same thing with, the only external kernel patch I have
applied is Suspend2. The ATA scanbus code tries to 
open("/dev/hda", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) and that fails, and since
the scanning code stops once one device fails to open the whole scan
aborts. Apparently O_EXCL was added by Ubuntu and Debian to stop
burns being corrupted by hald polling the device while a disc is
being burned. If you want to read the entire thread it's bug #262678
in Debian.

Jim.
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