[BUG?] Experimenting problems during an Arch->Mercurial repo conversion

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Jul 27 15:28:54 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:34:03AM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 July 2005 03:40, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > In general, not all filesystems support sub-second granularity.
> > Critically, if you want it on ext3, I believe you need to reformat
> > your drive to use 256 byte inodes rather than the default 128.
> 
> Most file systems, including ext3, don't have sub-second timestamps at all 
> right now. Increasing the inode size won't help.

Ahh. I thought the nanoseconds stuff went in earlier this year.

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