Re: [PATCH v8 0/5] fs: multigrain timestamps for XFS's change_cookie

[Christian Brauner]

> > Some NFS servers run in userspace, and they would a "clear user" of this
> > functionality.
> > 
> 
> Indeed. Also, all of the programs that we're concerned about breaking
> here (make, rsync, etc.) could benefit from proper fine-grained
> timestamps:
> 
> Today, when they see two identical timestamps on files, these programs
> have to assume the worst: rsync has to do the copy, make has to update
> the target, etc. With a real distinguishable fine-grained timestamps,
> these programs would likely be more efficient and some of these unneeded
> operations would be avoided.

The whole sales pitch falls flat if we end up with wrong ordering of
timestamps which caused us to revert this. So unless this is fixed
we shouldn't expose this to userspace again.