linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] - revert generic_fillattr stat->blksize to PAGE_CACHE

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Date:	Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:15:27 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] - revert generic_fillattr stat->blksize to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:50:02PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> so I would propose the following patch to make PAGE_CACHE_SIZE the default (again), 
>> and let filesystems which need something -else- do that on their own.
> 
> I agree with the conclusion, but the patch is incomplete.  You went down
> all the way to find out what the fileystems do in this messages, so add
> the hunks to override the defaults for non-standard filesystems to the
> patch aswell to restore the pre-inode diet state.

Well, agreed.  I put 80% or more back to pre-patch state, but not all.
:)  So it's less broken with my patch than without, so at least it's
moving forward.  So... Ted's patches get in w/o fixing up all the other
filesystems (left as an exercise to the patch reader) but mine can't? :)

-Eric
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