Why vfs.timestamp_precision is set to 0 by default?
John Polstra
jdp at polstra.com
Mon Jun 18 17:00:23 UTC 2007
Xin LI wrote:
> Recently while I'm looking into the VFS code I found that we set
> vfs.timestamp_precision to 0 by default. Is there any reason not to set
> this to, for instance 1 by default? My rough test indicates that the
> performance affect is almost negligible...
If I remember correctly, I set the default to 0 for compatibility --
i.e., so that the fractional seconds would continue to be set to 0 as
before. That was probably too conservative.
John
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