Bug 89908
| Summary: | magicdev keeps polling harddrive | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Eric Wood <eric> |
| Component: | magicdev | Assignee: | John (J5) Palmieri <johnp> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | da+rhbugs, jkeck |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-08-25 17:47:37 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Note that stat() does not update atime. No, but the open() does. I just observed this behaviour on a clean install of Fedora Core 2 test 3, magicdev-1.1.6. The observable consequence on my laptop (Fujitsu S6120) is that the CDROM LCD icon flashes constantly, *unless* there is a CD in the drive. This is quite annoying. Closing. Magicdev has been replaced by gnome-volume-manager in devel branch. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Q312461) Description of problem: magicdev is stat'ing /etc/mtab and open'ing /dev/cdrom every second. The filesystem must flush the atime change every few seconds. So, how about stat'ing /proc/mounts instead? Why does /mnt/mtab even exist nowadays? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): magicdev-1.1.4-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. startx 2. strace -p <pid_of_magicdev> Actual Results: strace will show you the stat'ing and opening of /etc/mtab and /dev/cdrom Expected Results: use fam or /proc. Additional info: