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filesystem: Document timestamp squashing
Came up in chat. Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <[email protected]>
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The rest of this document describes the state of the system when
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"deployed" to a physical or virtual machine, and managed by `bootc`.
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## Timestamps
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bootc uses ostree, which currently [squashes all timestamps to zero](https://ostreedev.github.io/ostree/repo/#content-objects).
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This is now viewed as an implementation bug and will be changed in the future.
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For more information, see [this tracker issue](https://github.com/containers/bootc/issues/20).
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## Understanding physical vs logical root with `/sysroot`
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When the system is fully booted, it is into the equivalent of a `chroot`.

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