From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964846AbWGENWM (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 09:22:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964849AbWGENWM (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 09:22:12 -0400 Received: from yzordderrex.netnoteinc.com ([212.17.35.167]:60122 "EHLO yzordderrex.lincor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964846AbWGENWM (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 09:22:12 -0400 Message-ID: <44ABBBF6.5070005@draigBrady.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:17:42 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J. Bruce Fields" CC: Bill Davidsen , Theodore Tso , Thomas Glanzmann , LKML Subject: Re: ext4 features References: <20060701163301.GB24570@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <20060704010240.GD6317@thunk.org> <44ABAF7D.8010200@tmr.com> <20060705125956.GA529@fieldses.org> In-Reply-To: <20060705125956.GA529@fieldses.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.