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Clarify in the Makefile a guideline to decide use of USE_NSEC.

* kb/use-nsec-doc:
  Makefile / racy-git.txt: clarify USE_NSEC prerequisites
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Junio C Hamano
2015-07-13 14:00:26 -07:00
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@ -41,13 +41,17 @@ With a `USE_STDEV` compile-time option, `st_dev` is also
compared, but this is not enabled by default because this member
is not stable on network filesystems. With `USE_NSEC`
compile-time option, `st_mtim.tv_nsec` and `st_ctim.tv_nsec`
members are also compared, but this is not enabled by default
members are also compared. On Linux, this is not enabled by default
because in-core timestamps can have finer granularity than
on-disk timestamps, resulting in meaningless changes when an
inode is evicted from the inode cache. See commit 8ce13b0
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
([PATCH] Sync in core time granularity with filesystems,
2005-01-04).
2005-01-04). This patch is included in kernel 2.6.11 and newer, but
only fixes the issue for file systems with exactly 1 ns or 1 s
resolution. Other file systems are still broken in current Linux
kernels (e.g. CEPH, CIFS, NTFS, UDF), see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/9/714
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