Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:17:42 +0100 | From | Pádraig Brady <> | Subject | Re: ext4 features |
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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
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