On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 04:54:09PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-08-02 at 21:35 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Tue 25-07-23 10:58:15, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime
> > > and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allo
On Wed, 2023-08-02 at 21:35 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 25-07-23 10:58:15, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime
> > and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing filesystems
> > to optimize away a lot metadata updates, down to
On Tue 25-07-23 10:58:15, Jeff Layton wrote:
> The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime
> and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing filesystems
> to optimize away a lot metadata updates, down to around 1 per jiffy,
> even when a file is under heavy writ
The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime
and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing filesystems
to optimize away a lot metadata updates, down to around 1 per jiffy,
even when a file is under heavy writes.
Unfortunately, this has always been an issue whe