> Unfortunately that application code breaks when the filesystem may
> have timestamps with resolution better than 1 second, but worse than 1
> nanosecond.
The current resolution is jiffies, which tends to be 1ms
Then the application just can't do the right thing,
> unless it knows what rounding was applied by the kernel/filesystem, so
> it can change that rounding in a safe direction.
The rounding is always truncation. So the application can just assume
that.
-Andi
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