Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6:
  ext3: Update documentation about ext3 quota mount options
  ext3: Don't update superblock write time when filesystem is read-only

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
index 72743d360509..7a520a862f49 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -2321,7 +2321,18 @@ static int ext3_commit_super(struct super_block *sb,
 
         if (!sbh)
                 return error;
-        es->s_wtime = cpu_to_le32(get_seconds());
+        /*
+         * If the file system is mounted read-only, don't update the
+         * superblock write time.  This avoids updating the superblock
+         * write time when we are mounting the root file system
+         * read/only but we need to replay the journal; at that point,
+         * for people who are east of GMT and who make their clock
+         * tick in localtime for Windows bug-for-bug compatibility,
+         * the clock is set in the future, and this will cause e2fsck
+         * to complain and force a full file system check.
+         */
+        if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
+                es->s_wtime = cpu_to_le32(get_seconds());
         es->s_free_blocks_count = cpu_to_le32(ext3_count_free_blocks(sb));
         es->s_free_inodes_count = cpu_to_le32(ext3_count_free_inodes(sb));
         BUFFER_TRACE(sbh, "marking dirty");