Re: filesystem time stamp resolution

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Thu Feb 26 2009 - 18:58:18 EST


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Al Viro wrote:
> Who said that it's not going to be dependent on the flags used to
> create and/or mount the filesystem? IOW, what makes you think that
> knowing fs type will be enough to derive that data from?

Nothing. Just the hope that the sanity of the users is a concern when
these features are designed.

Regardless, we need some sort of solution. I just looked, there is
spare room in the kstatfs structure. We could have a value returned in
a new f_tsres field or so. That could be per mount point.

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