From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 18 10:56: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from marcy.nas.nasa.gov (marcy.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.113.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1C6C14D15; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:55:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wrstuden@marcy.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (wrstuden@localhost) by marcy.nas.nasa.gov (8.9.3/NAS8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA19003; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:56:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Studenmund To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Terry Lambert , Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite In-Reply-To: <1240.934997782@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , Bill Studenmund writes: > > >Whew! That's reasuring. I agree there are things which need fixing. It'd > >be nice if both NetBSD and FreeBSD could fix things in the same way. > > Well, >that< still remains to be seen... :-) > >I doubt we need more than 64 bit times. 2^63 seconds works out to > >292,279,025,208 years, or 292 (american) billion years. Current theories > >put the age of the universe at I think 12 to 16 billion years. So 64-bit > >signed times in seconds will cover from before the big bang to way past > >any time we'll be caring about. :-) I was unclear. I was refering to the seconds side of things. Sub-second resolution would need other bits. Take care, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message