From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759071AbZBZXyT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:54:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754858AbZBZXyF (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:54:05 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:41915 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754263AbZBZXyE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:54:04 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:54:00 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: filesystem time stamp resolution Message-ID: <20090226235400.GP28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <49A7232C.6050808@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49A7232C.6050808@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:18:04PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > information. E.g.: > > /proc/fs/ext4/timestamp-resolution > > Measured in nano-seconds or so. Who said that it's not going to be dependent on the flags used to create and/or mount the filesystem? IOW, what makes you think that knowing fs type will be enough to derive that data from?