While mounting UDF media, when the primary AVDP is not found at block 256, UDF code tries to read-in the alternate AVDP. In the function udf_find_anchor, udf_scan_anchors is called 3 times, where each call to udf_scan_anchors read 12 blocks. In case there is no alternate AVDP stored, a total of 36 blocks are read before mount fails - causing time delay for Mount Failure. 1) After first call to udf_scan_anchors and before the second call there is varconv conversion, for the older drivers, which skips 7 blocks after every 32 blocks. What are these older drivers? Do we still require this code? 2) After varconv conversion, why is there a third call to udf_scan_anchors? In the 1st call and 3rd call to udf_scan_anchors, exactly same blocks are read, so this 3rd call seems to be redundant. I suggest this modified code for udf_find_anchor :- lastblock = udf_scan_anchors(sb,udf_variable_to_fixed(sbi->s_last_block),fileset); if (lastblock) goto out; else { /* VARCONV didn't help. Clear it. */ UDF_CLEAR_FLAG(sb, UDF_FLAG_VARCONV); return 0; } Please share your opinion to the above '2' points. Thanks & Regards, Amit Sahrawat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html