timestamps

Mingming Cao cmm at us.ibm.com
Tue Feb 19 18:09:24 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 18:23 +0100, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to save and then retrieve timestamps in mili or microseconds 
> with ext3? 
> I've heard ext4 will have timestamps in nanoseconds.
> 
Yes, ext4 supports nanosecond timestamp. It's not very hard to port the
changes back to ext3, but it does requires ext3 formatted with larger
inode size (>256bytes) to store the finer timestamps.

Mingming





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