So are you suggesting that this would be a bad idea, an incompatible change as they would be looking for zero instead of unity?
On May 22, 2017, at 1:36 PM, Martin Buchholz <marti...@google.com> wrote: > I have seen such filesystems in the wild. Imagine that a virtual filesystem > has to make up metadata for an object not actually stored, e.g. a directory > for a file system backed by a source code control system that does not have > directory artifacts. Filesystem authors are likely to pick the value 0 for > timestamps, even though that is likely to cause trouble (later than 2000 is > much safer).
