On 7/8/24 8:53 AM, Jeff Layton wrote: > Add a high-level document that describes how multigrain timestamps work, > rationale for them, and some info about implementation and tradeoffs. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlay...@kernel.org> > --- > Documentation/filesystems/multigrain-ts.rst | 120 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 120 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/multigrain-ts.rst > b/Documentation/filesystems/multigrain-ts.rst > new file mode 100644 > index 000000000000..e4f52a9e3c51 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/multigrain-ts.rst > @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ > +Inode Timestamp Ordering > +======================== > + > +In addition just providing info about changes to individual files, file In addition to just > +timestamps also serve an important purpose in applications like "make". These > +programs measure timestamps in order to determine whether source files might > be > +newer than cached objects.
- [PATCH v4 0/9] fs: multigrain timestamp redux Jeff Layton
- [PATCH v4 1/9] fs: add infrastructure for multigrain ... Jeff Layton
- Re: [PATCH v4 1/9] fs: add infrastructure for mul... Darrick J. Wong
- Re: [PATCH v4 1/9] fs: add infrastructure for... Jeff Layton
- [PATCH v4 2/9] fs: tracepoints around multigrain time... Jeff Layton
- [PATCH v4 3/9] fs: add percpu counters for significan... Jeff Layton
- [PATCH v4 4/9] fs: have setattr_copy handle multigrai... Jeff Layton
- [PATCH v4 5/9] Documentation: add a new file document... Jeff Layton
- Re: [PATCH v4 5/9] Documentation: add a new file ... Randy Dunlap
- [PATCH v4 6/9] xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps Jeff Layton
- Re: [PATCH v4 6/9] xfs: switch to multigrain time... Darrick J. Wong
- Re: [PATCH v4 6/9] xfs: switch to multigrain ... Jeff Layton
- Re: [PATCH v4 6/9] xfs: switch to multigr... Jeff Layton
- Re: [PATCH v4 6/9] xfs: switch to multigr... Darrick J. Wong
- [PATCH v4 7/9] ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps Jeff Layton
- [PATCH v4 8/9] btrfs: convert to multigrain timestamp... Jeff Layton
- [PATCH v4 9/9] tmpfs: add support for multigrain time... Jeff Layton