Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Jan Blunck <j.blunck@tu-harburg.de> wrote:
>
> This patch adds bogo dirent sizes for ramfs like already available for 
> tmpfs.
> 
> Although i_size of directories isn't covered by the POSIX standard it is 
> a bad idea to always set it to zero. Therefore pretend a bogo dirent 
> size for directory i_sizes.
> 

Does it really matter?

+static int ramfs_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
> +{
> +	dir->i_size += BOGO_DIRENT_SIZE;
> +	return simple_link(old_dentry, dir, dentry);
> +}
> +
> +static int ramfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
> +{
> +	dir->i_size -= BOGO_DIRENT_SIZE;
> +	return simple_unlink(dir, dentry);
> +}
> +
> +static int ramfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = simple_rmdir(dir, dentry);
> +	if (ret != -ENOTEMPTY)
> +		dir->i_size -= BOGO_DIRENT_SIZE;
> +
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static int ramfs_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
> +			struct inode *new_dir, struct dentry *new_dentry)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = simple_rename(old_dir, old_dentry, new_dir, new_dentry);
> +	if (ret != -ENOTEMPTY) {
> +		old_dir->i_size -= BOGO_DIRENT_SIZE;
> +		new_dir->i_size += BOGO_DIRENT_SIZE;
> +	}
> +
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +

I wonder if these should be in libfs - sysfs has the same problem, for
example and someone might want to come along and fix that up too.