On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 02:43:06PM +0100, Tony McConnell wrote: > I've started using 2.17.2, and discovered that there is now a large > delay before mount returns when there is no medium in the optical > drive. Version 2.14.1 didn't have this delay. > > Question: Is it possible to make CRDOM_NOMEDIUM_RETRIES (from > blkdev.h) configurable via parameter? Or is there a better way to > detect presence of media? I don't want to add an extra option for this thing. > This now adds 15 seconds onto my apps startup-time... Maybe we can use something more sane, 3 retries with 1 second delay (= whole delay 3 seconds). Or we can remove this "feature" at all. The original thread about this topic: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/1495 CC: to Jens who is kernel CDROM driver maintainer, maybe he knows a better solution for ENOMEDIUM error. The current solution with sleep() sucks... Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- 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
