char                    *this_char, *value, *eov;
        int                     dsunit, dswidth, vol_dsunit, vol_dswidth;
        int                     iosize;
-
-       /*
-        * Applications using DMI filesystems often expect the
-        * inode generation number to be monotonically increasing.
-        * If we delete inode chunks we break this assumption, so
-        * keep unused inode chunks on disk for DMI filesystems
-        * until we come up with a better solution.
-        * Note that if "ikeep" or "noikeep" mount options are
-        * supplied, then they are honored.
-        */
-       if (!(args->flags & XFSMNT_DMAPI))
-               args->flags |= XFSMNT_IDELETE;
+       int                     ikeep = 0;
 
        args->flags |= XFSMNT_BARRIER;
        args->flags2 |= XFSMNT2_COMPAT_IOSIZE;
                } else if (!strcmp(this_char, MNTOPT_NOBARRIER)) {
                        args->flags &= ~XFSMNT_BARRIER;
                } else if (!strcmp(this_char, MNTOPT_IKEEP)) {
+                       ikeep = 1;
                        args->flags &= ~XFSMNT_IDELETE;
                } else if (!strcmp(this_char, MNTOPT_NOIKEEP)) {
                        args->flags |= XFSMNT_IDELETE;
                return EINVAL;
        }
 
+       /*
+        * Applications using DMI filesystems often expect the
+        * inode generation number to be monotonically increasing.
+        * If we delete inode chunks we break this assumption, so
+        * keep unused inode chunks on disk for DMI filesystems
+        * until we come up with a better solution.
+        * Note that if "ikeep" or "noikeep" mount options are
+        * supplied, then they are honored.
+        */
+       if (!(args->flags & XFSMNT_DMAPI) && !ikeep)
+               args->flags |= XFSMNT_IDELETE;
+
        if ((args->flags & XFSMNT_NOALIGN) != XFSMNT_NOALIGN) {
                if (dsunit) {
                        args->sunit = dsunit;