From: David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.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
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Mark Harris <mhlk-gcwzot8L0og@public.gmane.org> 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