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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt | 8 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt index 242a044db9..4a8be4d144 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt @@ -41,13 +41,17 @@ With a `USE_STDEV` compile-time option, `st_dev` is also compared, but this is not enabled by default because this member is not stable on network filesystems. With `USE_NSEC` compile-time option, `st_mtim.tv_nsec` and `st_ctim.tv_nsec` -members are also compared, but this is not enabled by default +members are also compared. On Linux, this is not enabled by default because in-core timestamps can have finer granularity than on-disk timestamps, resulting in meaningless changes when an inode is evicted from the inode cache. See commit 8ce13b0 of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git ([PATCH] Sync in core time granularity with filesystems, -2005-01-04). +2005-01-04). This patch is included in kernel 2.6.11 and newer, but +only fixes the issue for file systems with exactly 1 ns or 1 s +resolution. Other file systems are still broken in current Linux +kernels (e.g. CEPH, CIFS, NTFS, UDF), see +https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/9/714 Racy Git -------- |