Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:04:49 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite Message-ID: <1362.934999489@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:56:27 PDT." <Pine.SOL.3.96.990818104932.14430D-100000@marcy.nas.nasa.gov>
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In message <Pine.SOL.3.96.990818104932.14430D-100000@marcy.nas.nasa.gov>, 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... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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