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Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:03:36 +0200
From: Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [RFC]  Slimming down struct inode
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 07:50:08PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> So without further ado, here are some ideas of ways that we can slim
> down struct inode:
>=20
> 1) Move i_blksize (optimal size for I/O, reported by the stat system
>    call).  Is there any reason why this needs to be per-inode, instead
>    of per-filesystem?
>=20
> 2) Move i_blkbits (blocksize for doing direct I/O in bits) to struct
>    super.  Again, why is this per-inode?

  ZFS filesystem uses dynamic, per-file blocksizes. Some Linux
filesystem may implement something like this in order to be called
"modern".

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