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filesystem: Document timestamp squashing
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Came up in chat.

Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <[email protected]>
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Expand Up @@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ For more on container builds, see [build guidance](building/guidance.md).
The rest of this document describes the state of the system when
"deployed" to a physical or virtual machine, and managed by `bootc`.

## Timestamps

bootc uses ostree, which currently [squashes all timestamps to zero](https://ostreedev.github.io/ostree/repo/#content-objects).
This is now viewed as an implementation bug and will be changed in the future.
For more information, see [this tracker issue](https://github.com/containers/bootc/issues/20).

## Understanding physical vs logical root with `/sysroot`

When the system is fully booted, it is into the equivalent of a `chroot`.
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