[Apologies for trimming the cc's; I've had to pick this out of an
archive and don't have all the addresses.]
David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > (11) Include granularity fields in the time data to indicate the
> > > granularity of each of the times (NFSv4 time_delta) [Steve French].
> >
> > It looks like you're including this with *each* time? But surely
> > there's no filesystem with different granularity (say) for ctime than
> > for mtime.
There is an extremely obscure filesystem with this property:
VFAT.
> I put it in each time struct to use up the hole there. I could, I suppose,
> split tv_sec from tv_nsec to get rid of the holes and then put the granularity
> separately. That means that someone who wanted both the tv_sec and tv_nsec
> would have to fish them out separately, but that's probably okay.
>
> I could even make the granularity bigger then, to allow for the possibility of
> having a granularity >4s, but I don't know of anywhere that requires a gran >2.
[...]
Try 86,400 seconds - the actual granularity of atime on VFAT.
(For mtime it's 2 seconds, and for ctime 0.01 seconds.)
Ben.
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