Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Give files a default of PAGE_SIZE size

2024-01-26 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:06:33 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 10:41, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > Fine, but I still plan on sending you the update to give all files unique > > inode numbers. If it screws up tar, it could possibly screw up something > > else. > > Well,

Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Give files a default of PAGE_SIZE size

2024-01-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 10:41, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Fine, but I still plan on sending you the update to give all files unique > inode numbers. If it screws up tar, it could possibly screw up something > else. Well, that in many ways just regularizes the code, and the dynamic inode numbers

Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Give files a default of PAGE_SIZE size

2024-01-26 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:31:07 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 10:18, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > By following what sysfs does, and give files a default size of PAGE_SIZE, > > it allows the tar to work. No event file is greater than PAGE_SIZE. > > No, please. Just don't.

Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Give files a default of PAGE_SIZE size

2024-01-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 10:18, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > By following what sysfs does, and give files a default size of PAGE_SIZE, > it allows the tar to work. No event file is greater than PAGE_SIZE. No, please. Just don't. Nobody has asked for this, and nobody sane should use 'tar' on tracefs

[PATCH] eventfs: Give files a default of PAGE_SIZE size

2024-01-26 Thread Steven Rostedt
From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" The sqlhist utility[1] (or the new trace-cmd sqlhist command[2]) creates the commands of a synthetic event based on the files in the tracefs/events directory. When creating these commands for an embedded system, it is asked to copy the files to the temp directory,