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The block layer caches the device size to avoid doing lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END) every time this value is needed. For removable media the device size becomes stale if a new medium is inserted. This patch simply prevents device size caching for removable media. A smarter solution is to update the cached device size when a new medium is inserted. Given that there are currently bugs with CD-ROM media change I do not want to implement that approach until we've gotten things correct first. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Read the documentation in qemu-doc.html. Fabrice Bellard.