On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:37:30 +0900 (JST), Ryusuke Konishi wrote: > Maybe nilfs should support nano second timestamps, but the inode of > nilfs is unfortunately short 32-bits for this. :( > > If I can allot one 64-bit field of the btree root array, this can be > possible. But it breaks the compatibility. Another candidate is an > unused 64-bit field reserved for extended attribute. But I'd like to > reserve it as is because it is enough important. So it's thorny.
I just noticed another possibility. The current nilfs inodes have 64-bit dtime field, which stores their deletion time and is not used during inode is alive. We may apply this for the nano-second time stamps without breaking compatibility. I'll think for a second. Cheers, Ryusuke _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://www.nilfs.org/mailman/listinfo/users
