On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 08:49:31AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote: > > Hmm... I see. I've seen ordering problems (as in timestamps going back in > > time) more than once due to NFS, however. Should I take that into account > > and keep the sleep in there, or remove it? > NFS itself does not allow this to occur as the spec says that the server > should either provide accurate timestamps or none at all. If you've got > a buggy server, then the broken timestamps is probably the last thing that > you'll be worring about. More commonly one will run into clock skew problems when dealing with NFS, because timestamps are set by the server. I suspect this is the problem alluded to here. It shouldn't be an issue if you're touch'ing all of the files involved, AFAIK. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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