On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 06:10, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > After installing 9.0beta1, performing a "ls /mnt/cdrom" without a disk > > in the cdrom takes a long time (about a minute) to fail. I first > > noticed this with rpmdrake, which takes several minutes to start while > > it checks for a disk in the cdrom. Placing a CDROM in the drive > > prevents this problem. The drive is a CD-RW CRX120E (Sony) which is > > treated as an IDE-SCSI device. > > > > The only reason I can think of is that beta1 started to use auto fstype > for supermount which means your CD is probed five times (instead of just > once). > > Check fstab for fs=... for this drive, if it is auto - try to change it > to say iso9660 and see of it helps. > > It is clearly possible to abort early on some defined errors (like no > device present) but I have little hope for this patch to be accepted > given that much more important supermount patches are still unapplied > being over 2 months old. > > -andrej > Changing auto to iso9660 does make an improvement. "ls /mnt/cdrom" only probes the cdrom once (takes about 5 seconds). rpmdrake also loads much faster...but still feels it needs to probe 3 times (once per cd I guess).
-- Joe
