On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 09:46 -0400, Peter Staubach wrote: > Wouldn't the generation count work better than ctime to differentiate > between > instances of files using the same inode number? That way, there wouldn't be > a clock resolution issue. No. This is about distinguishing updates to the metadata/data of the same instance. It is exactly what ctime was supposed to do, but ctime relies on a clock which usually has too poor time resolution, may not be monotonic, etc... Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
