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Revision 79ed9caffc9fff67aa64fd683e791aa70f1bcb51 authored by Joe Thornber on 20 March 2013, 17:21:27 UTC, committed by Alasdair G Kergon on 20 March 2013, 17:21:27 UTC
When writing the dirty bitset to the metadata device on a clean
shutdown, clear the dirty bits.  Previously they were left indicating
the cache was dirty. This led to confusion about whether there really
was dirty data in the cache or not.  (This was a harmless bug.)

Reported-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Tip revision: 79ed9caffc9fff67aa64fd683e791aa70f1bcb51 authored by Joe Thornber on 20 March 2013, 17:21:27 UTC
dm cache: metadata clear dirty bits on clean shutdown
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