Re: Wrong atime on recent kernels

From: john stultz
Date: Mon Dec 14 2009 - 16:45:57 EST


2009/12/14 Petr Titěra <petr@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello,
>
>      I see some strange file modification times recently. It seems to me
> that in some situations, kernel allows to set nanoseconds part of  file
> access, modification or change time  to 100000000 ns. Problem seems to be in
> some generic part of kernel because I see it on several different
> filesysytems (ext4 and nilf2). These is I've got during my testing on kernel
>  2.6.32-tip-08309-gad8e75a.
>
>  File: `./Documentation/dvb/contributors.txt'
>  Size: 3035            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
> Device: fe04h/65028d    Inode: 818         Links: 1
> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Access: 2009-12-14 10:29:04.1000000000 +0100
> Modify: 2009-12-14 10:29:04.1000000000 +0100
> Change: 2009-12-14 10:29:04.1000000000 +0100
>
> See that all times of that file ends with 1e6 nanoseconds.

Hrmmm. Does reverting this change solve it?

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=patch;h=7bc7d637452383d56ba4368d4336b0dde1bb476d

thanks
-john
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