Re: [BUG] NFS no longer updates file modification times appropriately

[Joe Korty]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:20:11PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> P? m? , 07/06/2004 klokka 12:13, skreiv Joe Korty:
> > > 
> > > >   In which case we
> > > > could defer a timestamp-on-write only when it is still in the same second
> > > > as the previous write, but don't defer when a new second rolls around
> > > > on the client.  That would reduce timestamp updates to at most one per
> > > > second per inode per client, while preserving old NFS behavior.
> > > 
> > > Exactly why should we go to all this trouble?
> > 
> > For compatibility?
> 
> With what? There has never been a standard other than the close-to-open.

Compatibility with existing behavior.  It's called a de-facto standard.
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