From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Mar 10 23:16:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F1237B404 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 23:16:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0050.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.50] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16kK2c-0006qR-00; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 23:16:19 -0800 Message-ID: <3C8C59A9.7B102EAA@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 23:15:53 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Garance A Drosihn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t References: <80530.1015828637@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. FWIW, and so that you understand what you have commented upon: "Hog wild" is an American expression which means "doing things which are inadvisable because one has thrown caution to the wind". In this case, it was a reference on the relative merits of reasons for destroying binary backward compatability. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message