Re: [RFC] Slimming down struct inode

[Nikita Danilov]

Jan Engelhardt writes:
 > >
 > >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?
 > 

cp(1), db(3) or any other using st_blksize field of struct statbuf to
select the size of IO buffer.

 > 
 > Jan Engelhardt
 > -- 

Nikita.
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