On 20 May 2013 20:06, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
>> It would be possible to redesign this with a special new reason, or we
>> could just use "time" as the reason, or we could just leave it.
>>
>> Do nothing is easy, though so are the others, so we can choose
>> anything we want. What do we want it to say?
>
>
> I'm not sure. Perhaps we should print "(no flags)", so that it wouldn't look
> like there's something missing in the log message.
The reason text would still be absent, so it wouldn't really help the
user interpret the log message correctly.
I suggest we use RequestCheckpoint(CHECKPOINT_CAUSE_TIME) instead,
since it is literally time for a checkpoint.
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