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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: andrew@pimlott.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The return of the return of crunch time (2.5 merge candidate list 1.6)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:44:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020115174416.GC2015@zaurus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021028053004.C2558@wotan.suse.de>

Hi!

> The point of my patchkit is to allow the file systems
> who support better resolution to handle it properly. Other filesystems
> are not worse than before when they flush inodes (and better off when
> they keep everything in ram for your build because then they will enjoy 
> full time resolution) 

What about always rounding down even when inode is
in memory? That is both simple and consistent.

> If you really wanted that I would recommend to change make.
> When all nanosecond parts are 0 it is reasonable for make to assume that
> the fs doesn't support finegrained resolution. But I'm not sure it's 
> worth it.

Thats really ugly heuristics. What about filling
nanosecond part with ~0 when unavailable?

			Psvel

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-08 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200210251557.55202.landley@trommello.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-10-26  7:53 ` The return of the return of crunch time (2.5 merge candidate list 1.6) Andi Kleen
2002-10-26  8:13   ` Andreas Dilger
     [not found]   ` <20021026190906.GA20571@pimlott.net>
2002-10-27  7:01     ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-27 15:20       ` Andrew Pimlott
2002-10-27 17:57         ` Rob Landley
2002-10-28  4:06           ` Andrew Pimlott
2002-10-28  4:32             ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-28  4:09           ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-28  4:30         ` Andi Kleen
2002-01-15 17:44           ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-11-08 22:02             ` Andrew Pimlott
2002-10-28  6:03           ` Andrew Pimlott
2002-10-25 20:57 Rob Landley
2002-10-26  2:42 ` Hans Reiser
2002-10-27 15:11   ` Rob Landley
2002-10-28  0:27     ` Hans Reiser
2002-10-26 15:09 ` Eric W. Biederman

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