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* [PATCH] e2fsprogs: open device writable for trim/discard
@ 2009-11-17 21:49 Eric Sandeen
  2009-11-25 12:05 ` tytso
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eric Sandeen @ 2009-11-17 21:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ext4 development

Sorry about that, the discard ioctl doesn't actually work
unless you open the file with write capabilities...

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.c b/misc/mke2fs.c
index 94b4c81..0aa31d8 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.c
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.c
@@ -1877,7 +1877,7 @@ static void mke2fs_discard_blocks(ext2_filsys fs)
 	range[0] = 0;
 	range[1] = blocks * blocksize;
 
-	fd = open64(fs->device_name, O_RDONLY);
+	fd = open64(fs->device_name, O_RDWR);
 
 	/*
 	 * We don't care about whether the ioctl succeeds; it's only an


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* Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: open device writable for trim/discard
  2009-11-17 21:49 [PATCH] e2fsprogs: open device writable for trim/discard Eric Sandeen
@ 2009-11-25 12:05 ` tytso
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: tytso @ 2009-11-25 12:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Sandeen; +Cc: ext4 development

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:49:03PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Sorry about that, the discard ioctl doesn't actually work
> unless you open the file with write capabilities...

Applied, thanks.

						- Ted

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