Linux 2.6 nanosecond time stamp weirdness breaks GCC build

Kelley Cook kcook34@ford.com
Thu Apr 1 19:49:00 GMT 2004


 > Unfortunately, while Linux now has sub-second time stamps,
 > those cannot actually be *stored* on disk when using the ext3
 > file system (because the on-disk format has no space).  This
 > has the rather curious effect that while the inode is still
 > held in Linux's inode cache, the time stamp will retain its
 > sub-second component, but once the inode was dropped from the
 > inode cache and later re-read from disk, the sub-second part
 > will be truncated to zero.

For what its worth, problems such as this caused ".LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME" 
to be introduced into make 3.80.

Kelley Cook



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