On Thu, 2024-06-27 at 11:02 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 09:00:24PM -0400, 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 metada
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 09:00:24PM -0400, 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
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
