From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261765AbVGOKPd (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:15:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263266AbVGOKPc (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:15:32 -0400 Received: from smtp2.rz.tu-harburg.de ([134.28.205.13]:42026 "EHLO smtp2.rz.tu-harburg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261765AbVGOKP0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:15:26 -0400 Message-ID: <42D78D01.8040809@tu-harburg.de> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:16:33 +0200 From: Jan Blunck User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050602) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes References: <42D72705.8010306@tu-harburg.de> <20050714201120.73570316.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050714201120.73570316.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > > Does it really matter? > Yes! At least for me and my union mounts implementation. > > 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. Ok, I will check that next week. But AFAIK, sysfs does not use the libfs calls to modify directory contents. Therefore fixing the i_size problem must be done inside the sysfs code. For hugetblfs etc. it would be better to fix it in libfs. Jan