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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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	Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited..
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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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