[AFS3-std] Re: A call for consensus on draft-deason-afs3-type-time-02

[Matt W. Benjamin]

Hi,

a) with Russ
b) Intuitively I would have voted and would vote for the more NFS, POSIX flavor of timestamp granularity.  In prior discussion, that was not the consensus.

Matt

----- "Russ Allbery" <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

> Simon Wilkinson <simon@sxw.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > Would those with problems with the current draft be prepared to
> suggest
> > new wording for:
> 
> > a) the epoch value
> > b) the granularity

> 
> As nice as it would be to be able to represent old timestamps in the
> file
> system, we've never been able to before (at least consistently), and
> I
> think the simplicity benefits for compatibility with current code
> bases of
> sticking with the POSIX epoch are substantial.
> 
> I don't have an opinion on the granularity.  For me, the benefits of
> matching NFS and the POSIX timestamp granularity is fairly evenly
> balanced
> against the drawbacks of increasing the size of all of our protocol
> packets.
>

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