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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 21:13:47 +0100 From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Apparent backward time travel in timestamps on file creation Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > The error bar can be huge, for the simple reason that the filesystem > you are testing may not be sharing a clock with the CPU at _all_. > > IOW, think network filesystems. Can't I just not do the tests when the filesystem is a network fs? I don't think it should be a problem for disk filesystems on network-attached storage. David
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