From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Mar 10 22:37:46 2002 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 C78F637B402 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 22:37:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2B6bHnp080531; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:37:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Terry Lambert Cc: Garance A Drosihn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Mar 2002 17:09:47 PST." <3C8C03DB.E673B495@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:37:17 +0100 Message-ID: <80530.1015828637@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 <3C8C03DB.E673B495@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes: >> No, we can't change the size of struct stat (binary compatibility!) > >I think the first thing we would change, wee we to "go hog >wild" would be to make times in seconds 64 bits, anyway... If there were one thing I'd like to change, it would be Terrys ability to preach on issues he hasn't quite grasped the full implications off. The change I'd want is to turn that ability off. Entirely off. -- 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