Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill 
Studenmund writes:

>> >I doubt we need more than 64 bit times. 2^63 seconds works out to
>> >292,279,025,208 years, or 292 (american) billion years. Current theories
>> >put the age of the universe at I think 12 to 16 billion years. So 64-bit
>> >signed times in seconds will cover from before the big bang to way past
>> >any time we'll be caring about. :-)
>
>I was unclear. I was refering to the seconds side of things. Sub-second
>resolution would need other bits.

Yes, but we need subsecond in the filesystems.  Think about make(1) on
a blinding fast machine...

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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