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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:49:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 64 bit times revisited..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110261046280.10928-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <3BD98B6A.DED6D38F@mindspring.com>

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considering that we didn't have ANY sub-second resolution for a long time
I think that
looking for sub microsecond resolution on access times is pointless at
this time.. In any case, if you just take the top 2 bits you still have
nanosec resolution, and 400 years either way.
that at least should give us time to migrate to other filesystems and
get all active machines retired..
(which is actually the issue, assuming that at some time in the future
all new systems will be created with UFS2).


On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > Your proposal would leave us with quarter-microsecond resolution,
> > and I'm pretty sure I can beat that to pulp in the next 10 years
> > on a RAM disk...
> > 
> > There is no harm in having to run a rev on the UFS/FFS on-disk format,
> > when you hav 37 years to complete it.
> 
> Or 10 years, if we go Julian's way.
> 
> -- Terry
> 


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