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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:20:33 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 64 bit times revisited.. 
Message-ID:  <2912.1004113233@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:12:26 PDT." <3BD98B6A.DED6D38F@mindspring.com> 

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In message <3BD98B6A.DED6D38F@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Your proposal would leave us with quarter-microsecond resolution,
>> and I'm pretty sure I can beat that to pulp in the next 10 years
>> on a RAM disk...
>> 
>> There is no harm in having to run a rev on the UFS/FFS on-disk format,
>> when you hav 37 years to complete it.
>
>Or 10 years, if we go Julian's way.

Julians way doesn't work: it has insufficient sub-second resolution.

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