From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 19 22:16:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19386 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:16:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com ([203.8.14.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA19380 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:16:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.hilink.com.au [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00579; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:13:56 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808192213.WAA00579@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: ac199@hwcn.org cc: Garance A Drosihn , joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal to not change time_t In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Aug 1998 00:33:39 -0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:13:56 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > Actually, I think it'd be fine to split the extra 32 bits in half. > > Use 16 bits to extend the range of time_t, and sixteen bits to > > increase the resolution of timestamps in the filesystem. > > Hmm... > > Is there any way the filesystem could force times to be separated > by at least one unit (255ths, 1024ths, whatever), and then only > resort to using duplicate times when it is forced to by benchmark > programs that touch 1024 files per second just for kicks? > > This would, I'm sure, be rather difficult to write actual code > for (and fs coders just abound), but... It could simply be defeated by finding another pathalogical example. Higher time resolution is the only way to fix it correctly. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message