From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:53:25 GMT
Subject: Re: "prune" prone to clock skew (Re: t3306 failure with v1.7.5-rc1)
Message-ID: <20110408185325.GA6337@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vei5c4lwh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:51:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I don't personally think this is worth addressing, but as I was Cc'ed,
> I'll try.
> 
> If we at least know that the object store is contained within a single
> filesystem whose clock is at least guaranteed to monotonically increase,
> one possible workaround would be to touch a garbage file and read its
> timestamp, instead of grabbing the current time from the local clock, no?

Yeah, that is a much more accurate and simpler fix. Like you, I don't
really think it's worth worrying about, but if somebody wanted to, that
is much better than the fix I mentioned.

-Peff