On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 3:06 AM David Howells via samba-technical <samba-techni...@lists.samba.org> wrote: > > > Jeff Layton <jlay...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > Correct. We'd lose some fidelity in currently stored timestamps, but as > > Linus and Ted pointed out, anything below ~100ns granularity is > > effectively just noise, as that's the floor overhead for calling into > > the kernel. It's hard to argue that any application needs that sort of > > timestamp resolution, at least with contemporary hardware. > > Albeit with the danger of making Steve French very happy;-), would it make > sense to switch internally to Microsoft-style 64-bit timestamps with their > 100ns granularity?
100ns granularity does seem to make sense and IIRC was used by various DCE standards in the 90s and 2000s (not just used for SMB2/SMB3 protocol and various Windows filesystems) -- Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list Linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel
