Many changes were made during development that could result in old
versions of mklogfs and the kernel code being subtly incompatible.
Not being a friend of subtleties, I hereby change the magic number.
Any old version of mklogfs is now guaranteed to fail.
Erases for block devices were always just emulated by writing 0xff.
Some time back the write was removed and only the page cache was
changed to 0xff. Superficialy a good idea with two problems:
1. Touching the page cache isn't necessary either.
2. However, writing out 0xff _is_ necessary for the journal. As the
journal is scanned linearly, an old non-overwritten commit entry
can be used on next mount and cause havoc.
This should fix both aspects.
Andrew Morton sayeth:
fs/logfs/journal.c: In function 'logfs_init_journal':
fs/logfs/journal.c:266: warning: 'last_len' may be used uninitialized in this function
Can this be squished please?
Joern Engel