From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) Description of problem: When data is written to /mnt/cdrom and then deleted and the file system is unmounted, the system reports that the file system is actually mounted and displays old information. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: Panasonic DVD-RAM LF-D311SC drive is mounted to /mnt/cdrom. Files are written to the media and then deleted or the disk unmounted and reformatted. Actual Results: While the disk is in an unmounted state, do an "ll" command on /mnt/cdrom and the system seems to think the file system is actually mounted and displays the old contents of the media. I can also write to /mnt/cdrom as if it were mounted. Expected Results: I would not expect the system to think that a file system were mounted when in fact it is not. Additional info: Seems a little dangerous that the system may be giving me old data instead of what may in fact be on the media that is unmounted.
Are you sure the filesystem doesn't get mounted twice or something? Can you give me a shell script to reproduce the problem using loopback mounts?
File system was not mounted twice. Have since installed the latest Rawhide kernel and the problem went away.