Re: Proposal: Use hi-res clock for file timestamps

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Aug 17 2010 - 15:37:03 EST


> (Does it really need to be global across all filesystems? Or is it
> unreasonable to expect your unbelievably-fast make's to behave well when
> sources and targets live on different filesystems?)

I don't believe it does for the NFS semantics. You can't do it globally
because then you get weirdness between local file systems that support
u/nsecs and those that don't.

It's enough to fix NFS I believe.

Alan
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