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

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 16:49 -0500, Jim Crilly wrote:
> On 02/02/06 04:25:50PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 16:09 -0500, Jim Crilly wrote:
> > > 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. 
> > 
> > IO priorities are the correct solution...
> > 
> > Lee
> 
> Is this something that's available now?
> 

Yes but only in the CFQ IO scheduler, and a pre-release util-linux is
required to get the docs and command line utils.

Lee

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