Re: [RFC] Slimming down struct inode

Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-14T23:28:12Z

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>Sorry, but why this operation is needed? Generic code (in fs/*.c)
>doesn't use ->i_blksize at all. If XFS wants to provide per-inode
>st_blksize, all it has to do is to store preferred buffer size in its
>file system specific inode (struct xfs_inode), and use something
>different from generic_fillattr() as its ->i_op->getattr() callback
>(xfs_vn_getattr()).
>
By the way, are there any significant userspace applications that use
i_blksize/i_blkbits?

Jan Engelhardt
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