linux-kernel - Re: filesystem time stamp resolution

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Message-ID: <49A867CD.70807@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:23:09 -0500
From:	Peter Staubach <staubach@...hat.com>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: filesystem time stamp resolution

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Andi Kleen wrote:
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>> One issue is network file systems. The kernel has no idea what a
>> remote NFS (or other network) file system will support, because it
>> depends on the file system on the remote server.
>>     
>
> Hence my point in the initial mail saying this would be nice to have a
> solution for.
>
> Possibly some of the people working on the next NFS protocol revision
> (or similar protocols) read this and add appropriate requests to the
> protocol.

The NFSv3 and NFSv4 protocols already contain such support.
NFSv2 implementations which also support the MOUNTv2
protocol can also support this facility too, I believe.

       ps
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