Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:00:26 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: New nanosecond stat patch for 2.5.44 |
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Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > I basically agree but I suspect that filesystem writers will not be very > happy if you want to use 16 bytes for each timestamp, especially when 8 of > the bytes (the 32 high order bits from the second count and the TAI-UT > offset) do not change very often. (besides that tv_nsec is defined as a > long, i.e. 64 bit on 64 bit machines and _signed_ , stupid if you ask me > but I digress). >
The filesystem writers can compact things as they see fit. I'm mostly talking about the stat(2) format.
-hpa
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