e2fsck: Add the ability to force a problem to not be fixed
The boolean options "force_no" in the problems stanza of e2fsck.conf
allows a particular problem code be treated as if the user will answer
"no" to the question of whether a particular problem should be fixed
--- even if e2fsck is run with the -y option.
As an example use case, suppose a distribution had widely deployed a
version of the kernel where under some circumstances, the EOFBLOCKS_FL
flag would be left set even though it should not be left set, and a
customer had a workload which exercised the fencepost error all the
time, resulting in many large number of inodes that had EOFBLOCKS_FL
set erroneously. Enough, in fact, the e2fsck runs were taking too
long. (There was such a bug in the kernel, which was fixed by commit
58590b06d in 2.6.36).
Leaving EOFBLOCKS_FL set when it should not be isn't a huge deal, and
is certainly than having high availability timeout alerts going off
left and right. So in this case, the best fix might be to put the
following in /etc/e2fsck.conf:
[problems]
0x010060 = { # PR_1_EOFBLOCKS_FL_SET
force_no = true
no_ok = true
no_nomsg = true
}
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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