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I have observed on Linux writing and reading the same file many times without the mtime changing, despite the file system having nanosecond granularity (and about 1 millisecond worth of nanoseconds passing between modifications). I am calling this a Linux Kernel Bug and adding file size to the cache hash manifest as a mitigation. As evidence, macOS does not exhibit this behavior. This means it is possible, on Linux, for a file to be added to the cache hash, and, if it is updated with the same file size, same inode, within about 1 millisecond, the cache system will give us a false positive, saying it is unmodified. I don't see any way to improve this situation without fixing the bug in the Linux kernel. closes #6082