Mounting UBIFS readonly - is it really readonly?

[Sergei Zhirikov]

Hi,

I hope someone can help me to resolve the following mystery.

I'm using UBIFS as the root filesystem always mounted readonly.
The kernel boot parameters are:
console=ttyS0,115200 ubi.mtd=2 root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs ro loglevel=6

As you can see, there is "ro", which causes UBIFS to be initially mounted readonly. And later it is *never* remounted read-write. Everything seems to work as expected (I get "Read-only file system" error upon a write attempt) except one thing. Somehow the modification time of /dev/console is updated every time the system boots. Note: I'm not talking about the /dev/console located inside the /dev mount (which is tmpfs and is obvously writable), I'm talking about the /dev/console located on the root file system and accessed (probably by init) before /dev is mounted. I'm really puzzled. How is this possible? The root filesystem has been readonly all the time and still the timestamp is somehow updated. Does anyone have an idea what might be going on there?

I'm using kernel 2.6.33.6 and classic sysvinit-2.86.

Thanks and regards,
Sergei.