Re: ext4 features

Trond Myklebust
2006-07-05T21:42:37Z

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 17:22 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Consider the case where the build machine reads source from one network
> filesystem and write the binary result to another on another machine. If
> you know that I have the kernel source on a file server, do the compiles
> on a compute server, and store the binaries on three test machines for
> evaluation, you might guess this really can happen. Just increasing the
> timestamp may not solve the problem, unless you have a system call to
> set timestamp over network f/s, like a high resolution touch.

If you are running 'touch' manually on all your files, you can always
arrange to set the timestamp to something more recent. You don't
normally need a high resolution version of utimes() (and SuSv3 won't
provide you with one).

Cheers,
Trond