Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: shmem: fix the strategy for the tmpfs 'huge=' options

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 11:30:20AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> There were opinions in the past that tmpfs should just behave like any other
> fs, and I think that's what we tried to satisfy here: use the write size as
> an indication.

Indeed, it feels like we have too much 'special snowflake' stuff for shmem
anyway. Each instance of those adds more ways to get bugs/unexpected
behaviour.