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-rw-r--r--e2fsck/pass5.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/e2fsck/pass5.c b/e2fsck/pass5.c
index 6fd9ecc6..148473ce 100644
--- a/e2fsck/pass5.c
+++ b/e2fsck/pass5.c
@@ -116,7 +116,18 @@ static void e2fsck_discard_inodes(e2fsck_t ctx, int group,
ctx->options &= ~E2F_OPT_DISCARD;
}
- if (!(ctx->options & E2F_OPT_DISCARD))
+ /*
+ * Do not attempt to discard if E2F_OPT_DISCARD is not set. And also
+ * skip the discard on this group if discard does not zero data.
+ * The reason is that if the inode table is not zeroed discard would
+ * no help us since we need to zero it anyway, or if the inode table
+ * is zeroed then the read after discard would not be deterministic
+ * anyway and we would not be able to assume that this inode table
+ * was zeroed anymore so we would have to zero it again, which does
+ * not really make sense.
+ */
+ if (!(ctx->options & E2F_OPT_DISCARD) ||
+ !io_channel_discard_zeroes_data(fs->io))
return;
/*