On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 09:50:41AM -0500, Steve French wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 3:06 AM David Howells via samba-technical > <samba-technical@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Correct. We'd lose some fidelity in currently stored timestamps, but as > > > Linus and Ted pointed out, anything below ~100ns granularity is > > > effectively just noise, as that's the floor overhead for calling into > > > the kernel. It's hard to argue that any application needs that sort of > > > timestamp resolution, at least with contemporary hardware. > > > > Albeit with the danger of making Steve French very happy;-), would it make > > sense to switch internally to Microsoft-style 64-bit timestamps with their > > 100ns granularity? > > 100ns granularity does seem to make sense and IIRC was used by various > DCE standards in the 90s and 2000s (not just used for SMB2/SMB3 protocol and > various Windows filesystems) Historically it probably comes from VMS, where system time and file timestamps were a 64 bit integer counting in 100ns units starting on MJD 2400000.5 (Nov 17th 1858). Gabriel > > > -- > Thanks, > > Steve
