On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 10:05:35PM +0200, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> [...]
> EXT2FS (works correctly):
>      0 trtr>touch file0; sleep 5; make file3    
>      cat file0 > file1
>      cat file1 > file2
>      cat file2 > file3
>      0 trtr> 
> 
> But when I remove sleep 5 it sometimes fails:

Not surprising, because ext2fs doesn't have sub-second time resolution
(at last in the NetBSD implementation - I don't know if this has been added
to linux since I wrote this code).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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