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SubjectRe: Removable media bug
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>I am not on this list - I just wanted to confirm the existence of the
problem
>(found it by searching the ML archive)
>
>Any kernel since 2.2.3 (which works as do builds previous to 2.2.3) at
>least up to 2.2.9 (incl. 2.3.0) fails to invalidate at least e2fs
buffers for
>at least all Fujitsu MO drives (the vast majority of MOs).

Oohh! Finally someone confirmed this, so I'm not the most stupid in the
list :-))

>This really sucks
>and the only workaround seems to be to always insert (and mount/
umount) an
>MSDOS formatted disk between two e2fs-formatted ones to force a flush
in some
>way.

You can also try to mount the device without inserting a disk (you'll
get some errors, of course), then insert the disk, and when you mount
it again, it will detect the diskchange event correctly.

Bye.

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