Re: ext4 features

[Trond Myklebust]

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 17:22 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Consider the case where the build machine reads source from one network 
> filesystem and write the binary result to another on another machine. If 
> you know that I have the kernel source on a file server, do the compiles 
> on a compute server, and store the binaries on three test machines for 
> evaluation, you might guess this really can happen. Just increasing the 
> timestamp may not solve the problem, unless you have a system call to 
> set timestamp over network f/s, like a high resolution touch.

If you are running 'touch' manually on all your files, you can always
arrange to set the timestamp to something more recent. You don't
normally need a high resolution version of utimes() (and SuSv3 won't
provide you with one).

Cheers,
  Trond

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