Re: BUG in the block layer (partial reads not reported)

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2005-10-24 at 00:12 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Seems to me that the best fix for devices that may reïport the wrong size
> is to always use a foolproof way of determining the size.  I.e. when
> a CD-R cannot be trusted, determine the size by trying to read the
> last sectors instead of using the reported number.  

That may take up to half a minute on some CD drives that retry a lot
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