On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:03:38PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> I was mainly adding a field to the superblock for the sake of
> reiserfs; it was the easiest way to support it's current insanity of
> reporting 128megs as st_blksize, but with a mount option that affected
> things on a global scale. (Hey, at least my patch made resierfs
> support the mount option as a per-superblock setting, instead of
> setting a global variable that changed the behaviour for all mounts.)
>
> I don't mind espceially removing the superblock field, but if we do, I
> refuse to mess with adding a getattr special for reiserfs; someone who
> wants to support its current behaviour is free to send me or LKML
> patches....
I'd suggest to either keep their current buggy behaviour and let Hans fix
it or use a field in the reiserfs specific superblock structure.
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