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    UBIFS: make space fixup work in the remount case · 67e753ca
    Artem Bityutskiy authored
    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: default avatarArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarMark Jackson <mpfj-list@mimc.co.uk>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0+
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