From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760336AbZB0WXY (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:23:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755723AbZB0WXP (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:23:15 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:36039 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755237AbZB0WXO (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:23:14 -0500 Message-ID: <49A867CD.70807@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:23:09 -0500 From: Peter Staubach User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20080915) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ulrich Drepper CC: Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: filesystem time stamp resolution References: <49A7232C.6050808@redhat.com> <87r61k2rl4.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <49A862CD.2000409@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <49A862CD.2000409@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ulrich Drepper wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andi Kleen wrote: > >> One issue is network file systems. The kernel has no idea what a >> remote NFS (or other network) file system will support, because it >> depends on the file system on the remote server. >> > > Hence my point in the initial mail saying this would be nice to have a > solution for. > > Possibly some of the people working on the next NFS protocol revision > (or similar protocols) read this and add appropriate requests to the > protocol. The NFSv3 and NFSv4 protocols already contain such support. NFSv2 implementations which also support the MOUNTv2 protocol can also support this facility too, I believe. ps