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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: kern/5355: Fix for NULLFS problems
In-Reply-To: <199712260802.TAA11527@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Dec 26, 97 07:02:25 pm"
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 08:05:26 -0500 (EST)
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Bruce Evans said:
> >I am the perpetrator of the f_iosize evil.  Maybe we need to reevaluate
> >the design of this.
> 
> No, f_iosize is standard in BSD4.4Lite, although it wasn't in FreeBSD-1.1.5.
> It seems to be correct to use it for nullfs, although not for specfs.
> 
Thats what I meant.  It is likely just as correct for all filesystems, but
the faults and confusion are something that needs to be evaluated.

I think that the problem with specfs is that the default size is bogus.


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