From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: filesystem time stamp resolution
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:57:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A72C78.1060306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090226235400.GP28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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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.
- --
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-26 23:58 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 [this message]
2009-02-27 0:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
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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