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

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