linux-kernel - Re: Wrong atime on recent kernels

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Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:41:38 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Petr Titìra <petr@...era.eu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wrong atime on recent kernels

Petr Titìra <petr@...era.eu> writes:

> Hello,
>
>       I see some strange file modification times recently. It seems to
> me that in some situations, kernel allows to set nanoseconds part of
> file access, modification or change time  to 100000000 ns. Problem
> seems to be in some generic part of kernel because I see it on several
> different filesysytems (ext4 and nilf2). These is I've got during my
> testing on kernel  2.6.32-tip-08309-gad8e75a.

Do you know which kernel was the last one to be not showing this?

Is 2.6.32 plain ok?

-Andi

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