Re: Apparent backward time travel in timestamps on file creation

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:03 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Again, I'd utilize clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE, ...) for this
> instead of playing with fudge factors.

See my note on network filesystems. It won't help.

fudgefactors would at least work. Allow people to set them large for
filesystems with low granularity, or networks with bad time
synchronization.

                Linus