Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v7 12/13] ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps

2023-09-19 Thread Xi Ruoyao via Linux-f2fs-devel
On Mon, 2023-08-07 at 15:38 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > Enable multigrain timestamps, which should ensure that there is an > apparent change to the timestamp whenever it has been written after > being actively observed via getattr. > > For ext4, we only need to enable the FS_MGTIME flag. Hi Jeff,

Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v7 12/13] ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps

2023-09-20 Thread Xi Ruoyao via Linux-f2fs-devel
On Wed, 2023-09-20 at 10:41 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > > > f1 was last written to *after* f2 was last written to. If the timestamp > > > of f1 > > > is then lower than the timestamp of f2, timestamps are fundamentally > > > broken. > > > > > > Many things in user-space depend on timestamp