Actually I misunderstood the man page.  What it meant is that if you
specify lazy_itable_init, without a value, then the VALUE defaults to
=1.  Changing this to wishlist and I guess we should leave things as
they are until the kernel gets its thread to zero the tables in the
background or fsck is improved.

I have run into the problem Ted feared while working on e2defrag where
the crc on the group descriptors was wrong, and fsck did indeed ignore
the inode allocation map and scan the entire inode table and found old
inodes that looked valid, then got upset that they appeared to have
multiply claimed blocks.  This could possibly be resolved sanely by
having fsck compare the ctime of the inode with the creation time of the
filesystem and toss out the inode created before the filesystem.  Of
course, this relies on having working real time clocks.


** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Low => Wishlist

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