linux-ext4 - [PATCH 18/37] e2fsck: Don't verify bitmap checksums

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Date:	Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:37:06 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@...cle.com>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Coly Li <colyli@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 18/37] e2fsck: Don't verify bitmap checksums

Since the correct inode and block bitmaps are calculated in pass 5, don't fail
the bitmap read operation in prior passes since (a) incorrect results won't
kill us and (b) if we fail early, we'll never _get_ to pass 5.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...ibm.com>
---
 e2fsck/util.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


diff --git a/e2fsck/util.c b/e2fsck/util.c
index 22e06c2..61fa3db 100644
--- a/e2fsck/util.c
+++ b/e2fsck/util.c
@@ -224,7 +224,9 @@ void e2fsck_read_bitmaps(e2fsck_t ctx)
 	}
 
 	old_op = ehandler_operation(_("reading inode and block bitmaps"));
+	ctx->fs->flags |= EXT2_FLAG_IGNORE_CSUM_ERRORS;
 	retval = ext2fs_read_bitmaps(fs);
+	ctx->fs->flags &= ~EXT2_FLAG_IGNORE_CSUM_ERRORS;
 	ehandler_operation(old_op);
 	if (retval) {
 		com_err(ctx->program_name, retval,

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