2.4 -> 2.6 change: mount with disk not in drive semantics changed to something silly

In the Linux 2.4 packet-writing patches, if you tried mounting a
packet-written CD when there was a disk in the drive but the drive was
ejected, it pulled the drive in and mounted it.

This is sane behaviour, I think.

In 2.6, that's changed: the first time you try to mount, you get

mount: /dev/pktcdvd/cdrw: can't read superblock

and the *second* time it works.


This, to put it mildly, inconsistent behaviour leads to insanity like
the following kludge in my backup scripts:

if ! mount /mnt/pcdrw 2>/dev/null && ! mount /mnt/pcdrw 2>/dev/null; then
    ... check and format the CD-RW ...
fi  


I imagine this is a bug.

Right?

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