On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 09:48:00AM +0000, Konstantin Chistyakov wrote:
> From: Konstantin Chistyakov <Konstantin.Chistyakov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 19 May 2017 09:23:29 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] libext2fs: don't flush to device opened in read-only mode
>
> From: Konstantin Chistyakov <Konstantin.Chistyakov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If the e2fsck is called with both -f -n options, the checking completing with a flushing error (retcode 8).
>
> Catch error from the unix_flush() fsync(data->dev) when data->dev is opened in read-only mode:
I can't reproduce this problem. What storage device or operating
system are you using?
That being said, this is probably the wrong place to fix it. The
better fix is in e2fsck/unix.c, by adding a read-only test.
- Ted
