Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:26:47 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup... |
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Question: how we're supposed to reconcile the two cases for something > like NFS, where these 2 values are supposed to differ?
I'd suggest going for "optimal block size everywhere".
> Note that f_bsize is usually larger than f_frsize, hence conversions > from the former to the latter are subject to rounding errors...
User space shouldn't know or care about frsize, and it doesn't even necessarily make any sense on a lot of filesystems, so make it easy for the user. It's not as if the rounding errors really matter.
Linus
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