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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:07:25 -0700 (PDT)
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:  <199908240628.XAA04552@gilliam.users.flyingcroc.net>

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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!


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