Hello, On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 12:37:56PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > There is a related issue I have been discussing with Amit: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/23/156 > > On media change the inode size is not updated by the sr driver or the > universal cdrom driver. A userspace process that holds a /dev/sr0 > file descriptor open across media change causes all processes on the > system to see the old medium size when they do lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END). > > I think it would make sense to refresh the inode size on media change > so that even open file descriptors see the new size and a single > process cannot force a stale value for all other userspace processes > on the system. Hmmm... I don't know. Maybe we can but I'm not sure whether there's a good reason for it. cdrom is locked while opened after all. Are there actual problems? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
