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From:   "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
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Hi,

On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:39:16PM -0700, nathans@engr.sgi.com wrote:

> I think what we're really after is a way to call set_blocksize from
> userspace

Agreed.  The filesystems themselves can call it, so it makes complete
sense for fsck and mfks type binaries to be able to do the same.

Cheers,
 Stephen