Re: statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup...

[Joel Becker]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 03:26:47PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

	User space has to know about frsize for O_DIRECT alignment.
Some times you just want to write the 512 B you have in hand, not have to
read-modify-write the n KB around it.  frsize is much nicer that hunting
up the appropriate block device to BLKSSZGET on .


Joel


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