Karel Zak wrote:
> I don't see a problem, it reads 40 bytes from the last sector from
> the device. ...
> It seems like kernel last-sector-bug (see Google for more details).
Indeed, it is looking at and near the last block. As you point out this
is not wholly reliable with CDs, depending not only on the kernel but
also on drive firmware and how the disk was written. I have some cases
where it fails, so mount with no fs type fails unnecessarily, or takes
many minutes to error out of all the raid checks. (Working with kernels
2.6.31-32.8 since you asked, but I don't think that's the most
important parameter.)
I am proposing to modify mount or libblkid so that it doesn't look for
this information when it doesn't need it. Is there a way that will not
break the general case?
thanks, Mark
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