On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 10:52 AM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 16:19:02 +0000
> David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:
> > Are there any filesystems that can actually record a meaningful ns
> > modification time?  I find discussions claiming this:
> >
> > - XFS and EXT3: second precision
> > - EXT4: millisecond precision
> > - NTFS: 100ns precision
> > - APFS: 1 ns precision
> >
> > But also notes that the precision is likely to exceed the accuracy by
> many
> > times on real systems.
>
> Even if the accuracy is much lower than that, it can be important to
> reproduce exact timestamps.
>

EG GNU tar --diff
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