Re: [PATCH] xfsrestore: use utimensat() to provide atime/mtime with ns resolution

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On 9/4/14, 7:45 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 12:38:28PM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
xfsdump encodes and stores the full atime and mtime for each file with
nanosecond resolution. xfsrestore uses utime() to set the times of each
file that is restored. The latter supports resolution of 1 second, thus
sub-second timestamp data is lost on restore.

That doesn't seem like a big deal. What sort of problems does this
actually cause?

FYI, many linux filesystems only have second resolution timestamps
and hence applications can't rely on sub-second timestamp resolution
to actually mean anything useful....

But why not restore the same resolution as is actually stored in the dump?
Throwing it away seems odd, and restoring it looks easy enough.

In any case, there was a user who noticed & complained.  Seems like a
very reasonable thing to fix, to me.

-Eric

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