I was thinking about the seconds component.

----- "Sage Weil" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Matt W. Benjamin wrote:
> > 
> > ----- "Alex Elder" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > A ceph timespec contains 32-bit unsigned values for its seconds
> and
> > > nanoseconds components.  For a standard timespec, both fields are
> > > signed, and the seconds field is almost surely 64 bits.
> > 
> > Is the Ceph timespec going to change at some point?
> 
> I don't think so.  32-bits is enough for the billion nanoseconds in a
> 
> second.  And I'm not sure if the signedness is used/useful... the ceph
> 
> utime_t code always normalizes the ns result to be in [0, 1 billion).
> 
> sage


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