linux/fs/ubifs
Artem Bityutskiy 67e753ca41 UBIFS: make space fixup work in the remount case
The UBIFS space fixup is a useful feature which allows to fixup the "broken"
flash space at the time of the first mount. The "broken" space is usually the
result of using a "dumb" industrial flasher which is not able to skip empty
NAND pages and just writes all 0xFFs to the empty space, which has grave
side-effects for UBIFS when UBIFS trise to write useful data to those empty
pages.

The fix-up feature works roughly like this:
1. mkfs.ubifs sets the fixup flag in UBIFS superblock when creating the image
   (see -F option)
2. when the file-system is mounted for the first time, UBIFS notices the fixup
   flag and re-writes the entire media atomically, which may take really a lot
   of time.
3. UBIFS clears the fixup flag in the superblock.

This works fine when the file system is mounted R/W for the very first time.
But it did not really work in the case when we first mount the file-system R/O,
and then re-mount R/W. The reason was that we started the fixup procedure too
late, which we cannot really do because we have to fixup the space before it
starts being used.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Mark Jackson <mpfj-list@mimc.co.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0+
2013-03-14 11:20:22 +02:00
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budget.c
commit.c
compress.c
debug.c
debug.h
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gc.c
io.c
ioctl.c
journal.c
Kconfig
key.h
log.c
lprops.c
lpt_commit.c
lpt.c
Makefile
master.c
misc.h
orphan.c
recovery.c
replay.c
sb.c
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shrinker.c
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tnc_misc.c
tnc.c
ubifs-media.h
ubifs.h
xattr.c