Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759786Ab0GQJts (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:49:48 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:9825 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755134Ab0GQJtp (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:49:45 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20100717055130.GA2053@zoia.osj.us> References: <20100717055130.GA2053@zoia.osj.us> <201007161302.35775.arnd@arndb.de> <20100716062251.GA9318@zoia.osj.us> <30646.1279230807@redhat.com> <8527.1279275842@redhat.com> <10677.1279283886@redhat.com> To: Mark Harris Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Arnd Bergmann , Steve French , viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:49:00 +0100 Message-ID: <19785.1279360140@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 599 Lines: 16 Mark Harris wrote: > At least for the in-tree filesystems, I do not see any that keep > timestamps with a granularity larger than 2s. For that, a simple > 32-bit tv_granularity in nanoseconds (not limited to 1e9) would > suffice, and there is no need for the complexity of dealing with > a separate exponent. That's a good point. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/