Re: filesystem time stamp resolution

[Peter Staubach]

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Andi Kleen wrote:
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> > One issue is network file systems. The kernel has no idea what a
> > remote NFS (or other network) file system will support, because it
> > depends on the file system on the remote server.
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> Hence my point in the initial mail saying this would be nice to have a
> solution for.
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> Possibly some of the people working on the next NFS protocol revision
> (or similar protocols) read this and add appropriate requests to the
> protocol.

The NFSv3 and NFSv4 protocols already contain such support.
NFSv2 implementations which also support the MOUNTv2
protocol can also support this facility too, I believe.

      ps
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