nilfs2: support nanosecond timestamp

After a review of user's feedback for finding out other compatibility
issues, I found nilfs improperly initializes timestamps in inode;
CURRENT_TIME was used there instead of CURRENT_TIME_SEC even though nilfs
didn't have nanosecond timestamps on disk.  A few users gave us the report
that the tar program sometimes failed to expand symbolic links on nilfs,
and it turned out to be the cause.

Instead of applying the above displacement, I've decided to support
nanosecond timestamps on this occation.  Fortunetaly, a needless 64-bit
field was in the nilfs_inode struct, and I found it's available for this
purpose without impact for the users.

So, this will do the enhancement and resolve the tar problem.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nilfs2_fs.h b/include/linux/nilfs2_fs.h
index 1275b3099535..79fec6af3f9f 100644
--- a/include/linux/nilfs2_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/nilfs2_fs.h
@@ -67,9 +67,10 @@
  * struct nilfs_inode - structure of an inode on disk
  * @i_blocks: blocks count
  * @i_size: size in bytes
- * @i_ctime: creation time
- * @i_mtime: modification time
- * @i_dtime: deletion time
+ * @i_ctime: creation time (seconds)
+ * @i_mtime: modification time (seconds)
+ * @i_ctime_nsec: creation time (nano seconds)
+ * @i_mtime_nsec: modification time (nano seconds)
  * @i_uid: user id
  * @i_gid: group id
  * @i_mode: file mode
@@ -85,7 +86,8 @@ struct nilfs_inode {
         __le64  i_size;
         __le64  i_ctime;
         __le64  i_mtime;
-        __le64  i_dtime;
+        __le32  i_ctime_nsec;
+        __le32  i_mtime_nsec;
         __le32  i_uid;
         __le32  i_gid;
         __le16  i_mode;