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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 17:08:40 -0700 From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com> To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, 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 On Nov 06, 2006 17:15 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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? :) Actually, rather than blindly revert to pre-patch behaviour it would be worthwhile to determine if PAGE_SIZE isn't the better value. In some cases people don't understand that i_blksize is the "optimal IO size" and instead assume it is the filesystem blocksize. I saw a few that were e.g. 512 and that can't be very useful. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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