Re: ext4 features

Pádraig Brady
2006-07-05T13:22:12Z

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:24:29AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>>Theodore Tso wrote:
>>
>>>Some of the ideas which have been tossed about include:
>>>
>>> * nanosecond timestamps, and support for time beyond the 2038
>>
>>The 2nd one is probably more urgent than the first. I can see a general
>>benefit from timestamp in ms, beyond that seems to be a specialty
>>requirement best provided at the application level rather than the bits
>>of a trillion inodes which need no such thing.
>
>
> What's urgently needed for NFS (and I suspect for most other
> applications demanding higher timestamps) isn't really nanosecond
> precision so much as something that's guaranteed to increase whenever
> the file changes.

Yes please!
http://lkml.org/lkml/2001/10/8/18

Pádraig.