Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:52:20 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: Use hi-res clock for file timestamps
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> (Does it really need to be global across all filesystems?  Or is it
> unreasonable to expect your unbelievably-fast make's to behave well when
> sources and targets live on different filesystems?)

I don't believe it does for the NFS semantics. You can't do it globally
because then you get weirdness between local file systems that support
u/nsecs and those that don't.

It's enough to fix NFS I believe.

Alan