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:
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 Magicdev has been replaced by gnome-volume-manager in devel branch.