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Message-Id: <066E4E15-FE60-4D1C-9616-4679EE700CF6@dilger.ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:11:21 -0600
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available
On 2012-04-26, at 6:51 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:32:36PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>> I wonder if there's a way to make this explicit - or is it something that if the bit isn't set, you can't use the value in st_blksize.
>> I wonder if this value always has to be non-zero to make sure existing
>> stat() doesn't explode.
>
> More likely it probably needs to be non-zero to prevent applications
> doing division by block size from exploding... ;)
Right, and any application which knows it needs the blocksize should
also be requesting it when using the statxat() (or whatever) syscall.
Cheers, Andreas
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