Re: [PATCH 86/87] fs: switch timespec64 fields in inode to discrete integers
David Howells <[email protected]> Fri, 29 Sep 2023 07:32:09 +0100
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Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote: > Correct. We'd lose some fidelity in currently stored timestamps, but as > Linus and Ted pointed out, anything below ~100ns granularity is > effectively just noise, as that's the floor overhead for calling into > the kernel. It's hard to argue that any application needs that sort of > timestamp resolution, at least with contemporary hardware. Albeit with the danger of making Steve French very happy;-), would it make sense to switch internally to Microsoft-style 64-bit timestamps with their 100ns granularity? David