Re: Nanosecond resolution for stat(2)

[Andreas Dilger]

On Sep 24, 2002  00:35 -0400, Mark Mielke wrote:
> The behaviour does seem wrong. Resolution should not be faked to be
> more accurate than the granularity offered by the underlying file
> system. Timestamps can be persistently stored, or stored for longer
> periods of times, for all sorts of reasons beyond 'make', each with
> consequence that cannot be determined here.
> 
> What would it take to get microsecond or better time stored in ext[23]?

Not very much.  We have been thinking about this for a while already.

The microsecond-resolution times would be stored in a "large inode"
or in an extended attribute if the inode is a regular-sized one.  The
latter would be a pretty big performance hit for most applications if
it were only the u-second data that were being stored in the EA space.
We are also looking at a better method of storing the EA data so that
it is more efficient than the current EA implementation, but that is
mostly tangential to your concerns.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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