From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: filesystem time stamp resolution
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:19:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090227001909.GA23258@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A72C78.1060306@redhat.com>
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:57:44PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Al Viro wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Nothing. Just the hope that the sanity of the users is a concern when
> these features are designed.
>
> Regardless, we need some sort of solution. I just looked, there is
> spare room in the kstatfs structure. We could have a value returned in
> a new f_tsres field or so. That could be per mount point.
Or finally get a pathconf syscall and inode operation..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-27 0:19 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 [this message]
2009-02-27 8:48 ` Andi Kleen
2009-02-27 22:01 ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-02-27 22:23 ` Peter Staubach
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