This avoids updating the superblock write time when we are mounting the root file system read/only but we need to replay the journal; at that point, for people who are east of GMT and who make their clock tick in localtime for Windows bug-for-bug compatibility, and this will cause e2fsck to complain and force a full file system check. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/super.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c index a8d80a7..62c86af 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/super.c +++ b/fs/ext3/super.c @@ -2321,7 +2321,18 @@ static int ext3_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, if (!sbh) return error; - es->s_wtime = cpu_to_le32(get_seconds()); + /* + * If the file system is mounted read-only, don't update the + * superblock write time. This avoids updating the superblock + * write time when we are mounting the root file system + * read/only but we need to replay the journal; at that point, + * for people who are east of GMT and who make their clock + * tick in localtime for Windows bug-for-bug compatibility, + * the clock is set in the future, and this will cause e2fsck + * to complain and force a full file system check. + */ + if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) + es->s_wtime = cpu_to_le32(get_seconds()); es->s_free_blocks_count = cpu_to_le32(ext3_count_free_blocks(sb)); es->s_free_inodes_count = cpu_to_le32(ext3_count_free_inodes(sb)); BUFFER_TRACE(sbh, "marking dirty"); -- 1.6.3.2.1.gb9f7d.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
