Re: Apparent backward time travel in timestamps on file creation

[David Howells]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The error bar can be huge, for the simple reason that the filesystem
> you are testing may not be sharing a clock with the CPU at _all_.
> 
> IOW, think network filesystems.

Can't I just not do the tests when the filesystem is a network fs?  I don't
think it should be a problem for disk filesystems on network-attached storage.

David