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    SubjectRe: ext4 features
    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.
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