I have no opinion on how to address the problem - just pointing out that the problem is real.
I might choose an even less likely value than 1 if I were to switch from 0. (this is not a review!) On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Brian Burkhalter < brian.burkhal...@oracle.com> wrote: > 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). >
