[Rpm-maint] statfs/statvfs block size

[Michael Schroeder]

[also back from vacation]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 08:40:55AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> I had a look at this some time ago, probably while looking for a cure for 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847960

Oh, you already know about the problem with NFS. I asked our kernel
guys and they said there's no way to get the block size of the
remote system and that I should implement some max block size value
like 4096.
The block size IMHO only matters for "rounding up" file sizes, assuming
a file always needs one block. This is not true for some file systems
like reiserfs, so it's kind of questionable anyways.

> but in my (limited) 
> experiments on this, f_frsize was always just the same as f_bsize so I 
> ended up leaving it alone.
>
> Do you have a case where it actually makes a difference?

AFAIK it (currently) can't be different on a linux system. But maybe
someone wants to use rpm on some other OS where it makes a difference.

I'll create a patch for the "max block size".

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