I may have less access to the net for a while, and a Bayes question

[Sidney Markowitz]

My laptop is dying again and I am about to take it in for repairs 
(again), which means less convenient access to the the 'net, and 
especially to email. That might mean I don't participate in a bug 
squashing session depending on the timing.

Before I try to complete a final incremental backup and shut it down, I 
would like to get a question out there. I apologize in advance for 
asking without doing a thorough search of the archives first.

When I suggested making the atime in Bayes two bytes instead of four by 
making it coarser grained than one second, somebody (Justin?) said that 
it had been tried and produced problems in handling expiry.

Can whoever knows about this post some details? It would make such a 
difference in I/O requirements to not have to update the atime field on 
every significant token in every message, that I don't want to just drop 
the issue without trying to solve the problems with it. I have a hard 
time imagining what would be wrong with expiring tokens on a day 
boundary instead of one second.

Thanks, and wish me luck on the laptop.
By the way, Toshiba doesn't make the Satellite Pro 6100 anymore, but if 
you ever have a chance to get one, run the other way.

 -- sidney