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Commit 72746ac6 authored by Ryusuke Konishi's avatar Ryusuke Konishi
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nilfs2: fix regression that i-flag is not set on changeless checkpoints



According to the report from Jiro SEKIBA titled "regression in
2.6.37?"  (Message-Id: <8739n8vs1f.wl%jir@sekiba.com>), on 2.6.37 and
later kernels, lscp command no longer displays "i" flag on checkpoints
that snapshot operations or garbage collection created.

This is a regression of nilfs2 checkpointing function, and it's
critical since it broke behavior of a part of nilfs2 applications.
For instance, snapshot manager of TimeBrowse gets to create
meaningless snapshots continuously; snapshot creation triggers another
checkpoint, but applications cannot distinguish whether the new
checkpoint contains meaningful changes or not without the i-flag.

This patch fixes the regression and brings that application behavior
back to normal.

Reported-by: default avatarJiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: default avatarRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: default avatarJiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>  [2.6.37]
parent dd9c1549
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