[lug] question about ext 2/3 fs

[Paul E Condon]

I'm having a problem with mtime handling in coreutils. I won't
give details of that problem, but ...

I look into how Linux keeps track of mtime for files. I find
that it is stored in the inode of the file, and that 64 bits are
allocated for the number of seconds since the Unix epoch.
Fine but somehow 'ls --full-time' displays a fractional part of
a second right down to a nanosecond (9digits!). Where is this
stored? It haven't seen any mention of it. Where is the way
its done documented?


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Paul E Condon           
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