On 4/8/2010 9:17 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> If there are invalid block group checksums and a previous file system
> is reformatted using lazy_itable_init, e2fsck can get confused with a
> inodes from previous file systems.  This is why the default is zero
> out the entire inode table.

Isn't that why there are multiple copies of the block group descriptor
table?  If one got corrupted, wouldn't the backup then be consulted
which would have the uninitialized flag set correctly so fsck would know
to ignore the inode table?

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lazy_itable_init not on by default
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/556621
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