http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557565 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557565#c11 --- Comment #11 from Kay Sievers <kasievers@novell.com> 2009-12-23 16:44:02 UTC --- We can not really be entirely sure that something polls the drive for media changes. If polling in HAL/udisks is disabled the cache will not be up-to-date. There is also the poll-interval where the data is not updated for a few seconds. The cache today, is the udev database/symlinks. The blkid-built-in cache is not useful anymore. Mount/libblkid uses the udev information, but it forces a re-validate of the retrieved data to be sure it passes the right filesystem-type to the kernel. This safety check was added because mounting the wrong type may cause the kernel to destroy data. It happily accepts, mounts, writes and destroys an actual non-FAT filesystem, if asked to mount it as FAT. It succeeds here if there are only a few FAT sectors left from an old formatting. We see such left-over signatures pretty frequently, and only recently the common filesystem tools got fixed to wipe old signatures before re-formatting. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.