Re: [RFC] [PATCH 5/8] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize and use a per-superblock default

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:20:08AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode and uses default
> value in super->s_blksize.  Filesystems that want to provide a
> per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr routine
> instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.
> 
> Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and
> incorrect) values for i_blksize.

Blease don't add a field to the superblock for the optimal I/O size.
Any filesystem that wants to override it can do so directly in ->getattr.

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