UBIFS: add a superblock flag for free space fix-up
The 'space_fixup' flag can be set in the superblock of a new filesystem by
mkfs.ubifs to indicate that any eraseblocks with free space remaining should be
fixed-up the first time it's mounted (after which the flag is un-set). This
means that the UBIFS image has been flashed by a "dumb" flasher and the free
space has been actually programmed (writing all 0xFFs), so this free space
cannot be used. UBIFS fixes the free space up by re-writing the contents of all
LEBs with free space using the atomic LEB change UBI operation.
Artem: improved commit message, add some more commentaries to the code.
Signed-off-by: Matthew L. Creech <mlcreech@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/sb.c b/fs/ubifs/sb.c
index cad60b5..93d6928 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/sb.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/sb.c
@@ -617,6 +617,7 @@
c->vfs_sb->s_time_gran = le32_to_cpu(sup->time_gran);
memcpy(&c->uuid, &sup->uuid, 16);
c->big_lpt = !!(sup_flags & UBIFS_FLG_BIGLPT);
+ c->space_fixup = !!(sup_flags & UBIFS_FLG_SPACE_FIXUP);
/* Automatically increase file system size to the maximum size */
c->old_leb_cnt = c->leb_cnt;
