Re: Apparent backward time travel in timestamps on file creation

[David Lang]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, David Howells wrote:

> 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.

it's not trivial to detect if a filesystem is local or network (you would have 
to do calls to figure out what filesystem you are on, then have a list to define 
what's local and what's remote, that list would become out of date as new 
filesystems are added)

David Lang