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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:17:49 +0600
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: request for review
Message-ID:  <20020121001749.A80939@iclub.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20020116155828.T487-100000@gamplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:18:12PM %2B1100
References:  <20020116000607.B10938@iclub.nsu.ru> <20020116155828.T487-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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hi, there!

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:18:12PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:

> > > This patch also makes FreeBSD almost compatible with FreeBSD (versions
> > > 1, 2, 3) that is.  Old versions vn_stat() simply passed back the
> > > va_blocksize set by VOP_GETTATTR().
> >
> > NetBSD/OpenBSD do exactly the same
> 
> The main point of the differences in FreeBSD is to set st_blksize to
> a reasonable value for disks (since individual filesystems didn't do
> it).  The changes really shouldn't have affected non-disks.
> 
> > > > > I think it is bogus for devices other than disks to flout a
> > > > > va_blocksize, but I am on the other hand not sure what the
> > > > > relevant (if any) standards say.
> > >
> > > POSIX says almost the same as the quote from www.opengroup.org in the
> > > sources: "A file system-specific [sic] preferred I/O block size for
> > > this object".  0 is wrong except possibly for /dev/null since it is
> > > a very bad I/O size.
> >
> > do you think we should remove setting sb->st_blksize to 0 in vn_stat() at all?
> 
> Yes.  We should also fix any filesystems that set va_blocksize to 0, or
> convert a va_blocksize of 0 to a more sensible st_blksize.  I just noticed
> the following comment in vn_stat():
> 
> 	 * Default to zero to catch bogus uses of this field.
> 
> This causes many bogus block sizes in the same way that a fixed default
> in the kernel does.  An st_blksize of 0 means stdio's BUFSIZ in many
> cases, since stdio prefers to use st_blksize but has to invent a block
> size if st_blksize is not useful.  BUFSIZ is 1024, which is rather
> small these days.  It's good for slow cdevs but not much else.

ok, what do you think about this patch?

Index: vfs_vnops.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/vfs_vnops.c,v
retrieving revision 1.126
diff -u -p -r1.126 vfs_vnops.c
--- vfs_vnops.c	13 Jan 2002 11:58:03 -0000	1.126
+++ vfs_vnops.c	20 Jan 2002 17:45:38 -0000
@@ -571,17 +571,17 @@ vn_stat(vp, sb, td)
 	 * Default to zero to catch bogus uses of this field.
 	 */
 
-	if (vap->va_type == VREG) {
-		sb->st_blksize = vap->va_blocksize;
-	} else if (vn_isdisk(vp, NULL)) {
+	if (vn_isdisk(vp, NULL)) {
 		sb->st_blksize = vp->v_rdev->si_bsize_best;
 		if (sb->st_blksize < vp->v_rdev->si_bsize_phys)
 			sb->st_blksize = vp->v_rdev->si_bsize_phys;
 		if (sb->st_blksize < BLKDEV_IOSIZE)
 			sb->st_blksize = BLKDEV_IOSIZE;
-	} else {
-		sb->st_blksize = 0;
-	}
+	} else
+		sb->st_blksize = vap->va_blocksize;
+
+	if (sb->st_blksize == 0)
+		sb->st_blksize = PAGE_SIZE;
 	
 	sb->st_flags = vap->va_flags;
 	if (suser_xxx(td->td_proc->p_ucred, 0, 0))

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