Does the Linux NFS client support SET_TO_CLIENT_TIME?

[Peter Staubach]

David Wuertele wrote:
> Peter Staubach <staubach <at> redhat.com> writes:
>
>   
>> SET_TO_CLIENT_TIME is used for system calls like utime() and utimes()
>> and is only applicable to SETATTR calls.
>>
>> Otherwise, all file times are maintained by the server.
>>     
>
> I read in
> http://www.time-travellers.org/shane/papers/NFS_considered_harmful.html that
> "The NFS protocol version 3 does have support for the client specifying the time
> when updating a file, but this is not widely implemented."  So my question is,
> is this support implemented in the Linux nfs client?

Yes, but only as I described.  There is no general support for the
client to maintain the file times, in either the protocol itself
or in implementations of the protocol.

       ps