Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes

[Jan Blunck]

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
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