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Subject: Why vfs.timestamp_precision is set to 0 by default?
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Hi,

Recently while I'm looking into the VFS code I found that we set
vfs.timestamp_precision to 0 by default.  Is there any reason not to set
this to, for instance 1 by default?  My rough test indicates that the
performance affect is almost negligible...

Cheers,