Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:56:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990818104932.14430D-100000@marcy.nas.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <1240.934997782@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <Pine.SOL.3.96.990818101005.14430B-100000@marcy.nas.nasa.gov>, Bill Studenmund writes: > > >Whew! That's reasuring. I agree there are things which need fixing. It'd > >be nice if both NetBSD and FreeBSD could fix things in the same way. > > Well, >that< still remains to be seen... :-) > >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. Take care, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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