linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fat: instead of constant number, use the i_blkbits of struct inode to calculate the number of blocks

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:56:51 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	Hyeoncheol Lee <hyc.lee@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fat: instead of constant number, use the i_blkbits of struct inode to calculate the number of blocks

Hyeoncheol Lee <hyc.lee@...il.com> writes:

> To calculate the number of blocks from the number of clusters,
> use the i_blkbits of struct inode instead of 9.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hyeoncheol Lee <hyc.lee@...il.com>
> ---
>  fs/fat/misc.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/fat/misc.c b/fs/fat/misc.c
> index 6d93360..ccdf663 100644
> --- a/fs/fat/misc.c
> +++ b/fs/fat/misc.c
> @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ int fat_chain_add(struct inode *inode, int new_dclus, int nr_cluster)
>  			     (llu)(inode->i_blocks >> (sbi->cluster_bits - 9)));
>  		fat_cache_inval_inode(inode);
>  	}
> -	inode->i_blocks += nr_cluster << (sbi->cluster_bits - 9);
> +	inode->i_blocks += nr_cluster << (sbi->cluster_bits - inode->i_blkbits);

No. Unit of ->i_blocks is 512bytes always. So, 9 is right number.

>  
>  	return 0;
>  }

-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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