e2fsck: skip low dtime check if the number of inodes > s_mkfs_time

We already skip the low dtime check if the number of inods is greater
than the last mount or last written time.  However, if a very large
file system is resized sufficiently large that the number of inodes is
greater than when the file system was original created, we can end up
running afoul of the low dtime check.  This results in a large number
of false positives which e2fsck can fix up without causing any
problems, but it can induce a large amount of anxiety for the system
administrator.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Patrik Horník <patrik@hornik.sk>

diff --git a/e2fsck/pass1.c b/e2fsck/pass1.c
index 38b221c..9ef724a 100644 (file)
--- a/e2fsck/pass1.c
+++ b/e2fsck/pass1.c
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ void e2fsck_pass1(e2fsck_t ctx)
        const char      *old_op;
        unsigned int    save_type;
        int             imagic_fs, extent_fs;
-       int             busted_fs_time = 0;
+       int             low_dtime_check = 1;
        int             inode_size;
 
        init_resource_track(&rtrack, ctx->fs->io);
@@ -708,8 +708,10 @@ void e2fsck_pass1(e2fsck_t ctx)
                                              ctx->fs->group_desc_count)))
                goto endit;
        if ((fs->super->s_wtime < fs->super->s_inodes_count) ||
-           (fs->super->s_mtime < fs->super->s_inodes_count))
-               busted_fs_time = 1;
+           (fs->super->s_mtime < fs->super->s_inodes_count) ||
+           (fs->super->s_mkfs_time &&
+            fs->super->s_mkfs_time < fs->super->s_inodes_count))
+               low_dtime_check = 0;
 
        if ((fs->super->s_feature_incompat & EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_MMP) &&
            fs->super->s_mmp_block > fs->super->s_first_data_block &&
@@ -988,7 +990,7 @@ void e2fsck_pass1(e2fsck_t ctx)
                 * than nothing.  The right answer is that there
                 * shouldn't be any bugs in the orphan list handling.  :-)
                 */
-               if (inode->i_dtime && !busted_fs_time &&
+               if (inode->i_dtime && low_dtime_check &&
                    inode->i_dtime < ctx->fs->super->s_inodes_count) {
                        if (fix_problem(ctx, PR_1_LOW_DTIME, &pctx)) {
                                inode->i_dtime = inode->i_links_count ?