linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6]

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Message-ID: <19785.1279360140@redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:49:00 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Mark Harris <mhlk@....us>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	samba-technical@...ts.samba.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6]

Mark Harris <mhlk@....us> wrote:

> At least for the in-tree filesystems, I do not see any that keep
> timestamps with a granularity larger than 2s.  For that, a simple
> 32-bit tv_granularity in nanoseconds (not limited to 1e9) would
> suffice, and there is no need for the complexity of dealing with
> a separate exponent.

That's a good point.

David
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