From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 9:21:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B067237B401 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:21:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9QGKYM02914; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:20:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Julian Elischer , Peter Wemm , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:12:26 PDT." <3BD98B6A.DED6D38F@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:20:33 +0200 Message-ID: <2912.1004113233@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3BD98B6A.DED6D38F@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes: >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. Julians way doesn't work: it has insufficient sub-second resolution. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message