>>>>> dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:18:58 -0700 (PDT) > > hey, did you know there's actually nanosecond resolution to > [acm]time on linux 2.6? (and on several BSDs i think) i don't know > if the interfaces show up in python -- but the C structure elements > are st_atimensec/st_ctimensec/st_mtimensec, and the utimes(2) > syscall can set nanosecond resolution timestamps.
Hmm what is the significance of this? rdiff-backup currently just rounds times to the nearest second. Even that is too fine on some systems -- someone reported some file system where the file's time was only reported to the nearest 2 seconds (if you kept statting it you'd get inconsistent values rounded to the nearest second). I think they sent in a patch which added a --time-granulatity option. Anyway it seems unlikely we are going to miss many new files because they get changed less than 1 second after rdiff-backup processes them. -- Ben Escoto
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