From: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: filesystem time stamp resolution
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:23:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A867CD.70807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A862CD.2000409@redhat.com>
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Andi Kleen wrote:
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>> One issue is network file systems. The kernel has no idea what a
>> remote NFS (or other network) file system will support, because it
>> depends on the file system on the remote server.
>>
>
> Hence my point in the initial mail saying this would be nice to have a
> solution for.
>
> Possibly some of the people working on the next NFS protocol revision
> (or similar protocols) read this and add appropriate requests to the
> protocol.
The NFSv3 and NFSv4 protocols already contain such support.
NFSv2 implementations which also support the MOUNTv2
protocol can also support this facility too, I believe.
ps
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-27 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-26 23:18 filesystem time stamp resolution Ulrich Drepper
2009-02-26 23:54 ` Al Viro
2009-02-26 23:57 ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-02-27 0:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-02-27 8:48 ` Andi Kleen
2009-02-27 22:01 ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-02-27 22:23 ` Peter Staubach [this message]
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