Distribution: Fedora Core 2 Hardware Environment: It happens in a Pentium II and also in a Pentium IV Software Environment: Problem Description: After mounting a CD-RW, I cannot read the information on it, previously recorded either from Windows or from linux packet-udf. Doing ls -al, I can see only the names of the directories at the toplevel of the disk but the owner, date, permissions, etc.. of these directories do not show up (a lot of ????? appear instead). I cannot inspect the contents of these directories. The problem happens with the 2.6.5 kernel shipped with Fedora Core 2 and also with 2.6.6 compiled by me. Fortunately, I have kept in the system a copy of the 2.6.3 kernel. If I boot with 2.6.3, I can access the disk without problems (and even writting to it via pktcdvd). Something odd seems to have been introduced between 2.6.3 and 2.6.5/2.6.6. Steps to reproduce: Mount a UDF formated disk with some information on it previously written in other equipment with, for example, a Windows tool and try to fetch the information.
I have taken the liberty of adding bfennema@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu to the CC of this bug, since I have seen in the Changelog of kernel version 2.6.5 that he is responsible for some changes in the udf module, perhaps related with this issue. I have also seen in the Changelog of 2.6.7 that something has been fixed by him, perhaps also related with this bug.
Seems to be fixed in kernel 2.6.7
As noted in the bug logs, this seems to be already fixed in more recent kernels.