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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] fs/sysv: stop using write_supers and s_dirt
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On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 14:42 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> The issue Alan raised around the superblock timestamp is still up in
> the air. I guess he's a slow typist ;)
>
> My take is "no, we don't need to do that any more" - surely all Linux
> systems have a functional hardware clock. But the changelog should be
> updated to describe and justify the decision.
>
While I do trust such system existed and may be even still exist, I
doubt that Linux sysv FS implementation is of any help for them because
it updates the superblock time-stamp _only_ if there was write activity,
otherwise it does not. So you cannot rely on our time-stamps at all
anyway. My patches just make it update the time-stamp more rarely.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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