From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Aug 23 23:28:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from gilliam.users.flyingcroc.net (gilliam.users.flyingcroc.net [207.246.128.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 024D615134; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:28:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ross@gilliam.users.flyingcroc.net) Received: (from ross@localhost) by gilliam.users.flyingcroc.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA04552; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:28:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:07:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199908240628.XAA04552@gilliam.users.flyingcroc.net> To: Bill Studenmund Cc: Terry Lambert , Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message , Bill Studenmund writes: >> >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. Yes, but we need subsecond in the filesystems. Think about make(1) on a blinding fast machine... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message