On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:28:52PM -0800, Ken Arromdee wrote: > Hi... > > I had a problem with "mount" not waiting for the drive to recognize a DVD. > Someone on a local mailing list pointed me to a patch from this list > (http://osdir.com/ml/linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/2008-06/msg00008.html). > I applied it and it worked. > > So I'd like to suggest that some variation on this patch be included in the > next version of mount (it wasn't). Already in GIT: commit d50c5917f07a0674e4e48a19d6902d17fb43e5bc Author: Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jun 9 16:38:25 2008 +0200 http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=commit;h=d50c5917f07a0674e4e48a19d6902d17fb43e5bc > The patch itself has one problem: If you specify mounting with a file system > type of "auto", and the drive still is in the process of recognizing the > disk, it won't work--it immediately returns and says "mount: you must specify > the filesystem type". It should wait to detect the file system type just > like it waits to do the mount. I guess you have mount(8) linked against libblkid. The library does not use this ENOMEDIUM optimization (yet). Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
