Re: du make check failure on Solaris 5.5 and 5.8 in coreutils-4.5.9

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>      * tests/du/basic: Make the test larger than 64 bytes,
>
> The idea of putting small files' contents into the inode is an old
> one, and it keeps coming up (a quick Google search reports that the
> TFS folks are thinking of doing it:
> <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b0abr8%242hfc%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>).
>
> Though 64 bytes is enough for Netapp, I'd expect other filesystems to
> use larger values, if not now then in the future.  Would it be easy to
> increase that value to 8192 (or better yet, but this is merely icing
> on the cake: the maximum of 8192 and st_blksize)?

Sure it'd be easy.
Buy why 8k and not the current size of 4k?

Here's the test I'm using now:

basic
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