From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 30 13:13:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0AC14F8B for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:13:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01418 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:10:37 +1200 (NZST) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:10:37 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is running out of time In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > So what are these additional fields being used for now? And is there a > solution available or in the works to solve the 2038 bug in FreeBSD? Or > will we just all be using Linux after that point? :-/ > > K.S. > > > At 01:23 PM 3/30/99, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > >Well, as long as we are beating dead horses here... > > > >IMO, it is *silly* that FreeBSD coopted the fields in FFS that were > >reserved for dealing with the Y2038 "bug", which technically didn't > >exist in BSD 4.4 until these fields were coopted. Other points to consider: Will/Should the solution be backward-compatible with all the FreeBSD FFS already created out there? Will we still be using FFS? -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message