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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:39:52 -0700
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:52:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I really think you should update the "simple_xxx()" functions
> instead, and thus make this happen for _any_ filesystem that uses
> the simple fs helper functions.

Why bother at all?

I don't see why zero sizes are a problem.  We've had them for year
without complaints.