RE: [RFC/PATCH] - revert generic_fillattr stat->blksize to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE

From: Hua Zhong
Date: Mon Nov 06 2006 - 19:14:10 EST


> 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.

Of course the name i_blksize is very clear on that. :-)

> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Principal Software Engineer
> Cluster File Systems, Inc.
>
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