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From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> Garance A Drosihn writes:
>  >
>  > I think those who run Alpha should vote on Alpha.  I do not run
>  > Alpha, and do not expect that I personally will get an Alpha
>  > machine.
>
> As an alpha user, I feel that the alpha should NOT be migrated to a
> 64-bit time_t until & unless the i386 is migrated.  I think we all can
> agree that due to a corporate knife in the back, the alpha will have a
> much shorter lifespan than the x86.  I seriously doubt there will be
> any alphas running FreeBSD 36 years from now.

What are the filesystem implications of a 64-bit timestamp? I've not
juggled disks with FBSD - are FBSD filesystems portable across
architectures? - and if so, do they remain so if some platforms get the
larger timestamp?

jan

PS. Seem to recall 64 bits of space around a timestamp in inodes, but my
memory's not what it was. RTFS, and I should cocoa.

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