From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] xstat: Ext4: Return extended attributes
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:47:36 +0100
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Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> wrote:

> This patch reminds me of a question on time stamps - how can an
> application query the time granularity ie sb_s_time_gran for a mount
> (e.g. 1 second for some file systems, 100 nanoseconds for cifs/smb2, 1
> nanosecond for others etc.)

Ummm...  In what context?  With the proposed xstat() interface it will be
provided.

David