Multi-Grain Timestamps Revived For Linux File-Systems

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 28, 2024 10:47 AM EDT
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Last year a new kernel feature merged in Linux 6.6 was multi-grain(ed) timestamps for file-systems as a means of better timestamp handling originally for NFS compared to the existing coarse-grained timestamps with the once per jiffy timestamps being used for invalidating NFS caches.

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