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@@ -97,9 +97,8 @@ incorrectly set at the time when e2fsck is run.
Historically this was usually due to some distributions
having buggy init scripts and/or installers that didn't
correctly detect this case and take appropriate
-countermeasures. However, it's still possible, despite the
-best efforts of init script and installer authors to not be
-able to detect this misconfiguration, usually due to a
+countermeasures. Unfortunately, this is occasionally
+true even today, usually due to a
buggy or misconfigured virtualization manager or the
installer not having access to a network time server
during the installation process. So by default, we allow
@@ -123,6 +122,18 @@ can not be trusted; and to skip time-based checks if this is true. If
this boolean is set to true, then e2fsck will always assume that the
system clock can not be trusted.
.TP
+.I buggy_init_scripts
+This boolean relation is an alias for
+.I accept_time_fudge
+for backwards compatibility; it used to
+be that the behavior defined by
+.I accept_time_fudge
+above defaulted to false, and
+.I buggy_init_scripts
+would enable superblock time field to be wrong by up to 24 hours. When
+we changed the default, we also renamed this boolean relation to
+.IR accept_time_fudge.
+.TP
.I clear_test_fs_flag
This boolean relation controls whether or not
.BR e2fsck (8)
@@ -136,6 +147,16 @@ filesystem checks (either based on time or number of mounts) should
be doubled if the system is running on battery. This setting defaults to
true.
.TP
+.I indexed_dir_slack_percentage
+When
+.BR e2fsck (8)
+repacks a indexed directory, reserve the specified percentage of
+empty space in each leaf nodes so that a few new entries can
+be added to the directory without splitting leaf nodes, so that
+the average fill ratio of directories can be maintained at a
+higher, more efficient level. This relation defaults to 20
+percent.
+.TP
.I log_dir
If the
.I log_filename
@@ -184,15 +205,23 @@ of that type are squelched. This can be useful if the console is slow
(i.e., connected to a serial port) and so a large amount of output could
end up delaying the boot process for a long time (potentially hours).
.TP
-.I indexed_dir_slack_percentage
-When
-.BR e2fsck (8)
-repacks a indexed directory, reserve the specified percentage of
-empty space in each leaf nodes so that a few new entries can
-be added to the directory without splitting leaf nodes, so that
-the average fill ratio of directories can be maintained at a
-higher, more efficient level. This relation defaults to 20
-percent.
+.I report_features
+If this boolean relation is true, e2fsck will print the file system
+features as part of its verbose reporting (i.e., if the
+.B -v
+option is specified)
+.TP
+.I report_time
+If this boolean relation is true, e2fsck will run as if the options
+.B -tt
+are always specified. This will cause e2fsck to print timing statistics
+on a pass by pass basis for full file system checks.
+.TP
+.I report_verbose
+If this boolean relation is true, e2fsck will run as if the option
+.B -v
+is always specified. This will cause e2fsck to print some additional
+information at the end of each full file system check.
.SH THE [problems] STANZA
Each tag in the
.I [problems]