From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: [PATCH 9/9] racy-git.txt: explain nsec problem in more detail
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 05:25:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091009102554.GI16558@progeny.tock> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091009101400.GA16549@progeny.tock>
Idealists may want USE_NSEC to be the default on Linux some day.
Point to a patch to better explain the requirements on
filesystem code for that to happen.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
Am I understanding the problem here correctly? It seems to me
that ext2/3/4, tmpfs, ntfs, and so on shouldn’t have problems
with USE_NSEC, and all that is left is the monster that is
networked filesystems.
Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt | 10 ++++++----
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
index 48bb97f..53aa0c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ compared, but this is not enabled by default because this member
is not stable on network filesystems. With `USE_NSEC`
compile-time option, `st_mtim.tv_nsec` and `st_ctim.tv_nsec`
members are also compared, but this is not enabled by default
-because the value of this member becomes meaningless once the
-inode is evicted from the inode cache on filesystems that do not
-store it on disk.
-
+because in-core timestamps can have finer granularity than
+on-disk timestamps, resulting in meaningless changes when an
+inode is evicted from the inode cache. See commit 8ce13b0
+of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
+([PATCH] Sync in core time granuality with filesystems,
+2005-01-04).
Racy git
--------
--
1.6.5.rc1.199.g596ec
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-09 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-09 10:14 [PATCH 0/9] Documentation tweaks Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-09 10:15 ` [PATCH 1/9] Describe DOCBOOK_XSL_172, ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF options in Makefile Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-09 10:16 ` [PATCH 2/9] Documentation: git fmt-merge-message is not a script Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-09 10:16 ` [PATCH 3/9] Documentation: fix singular/plural mismatch Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-09 10:17 ` [PATCH 4/9] Documentation: say "the same" instead of "equal" Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-09 18:51 ` [PATCH 3-4/9 v2] Documentation: clarify mergeoptions description Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-09 10:18 ` [PATCH 5/9] Documentation: clone: clarify discussion of initial branch Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-09 21:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-09 23:07 ` [PATCH 5/9 v2] " Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-09 10:18 ` [PATCH 6/9] Documentation: branch: update --merged description Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-10 0:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-09 10:19 ` [PATCH 7/9] Documentation: clarify branch creation Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-09 16:21 ` Sean Estabrooks
2009-10-09 18:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-10 0:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-09 10:20 ` [PATCH 8/9] Documentation: clarify "working tree" definition Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-09 10:25 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2009-10-10 0:56 ` [PATCH 9/9] racy-git.txt: explain nsec problem in more detail Junio C Hamano
2009-10-10 0:58 ` [PATCH 0/9] Documentation tweaks Junio C Hamano
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