Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

[Bill Studenmund]

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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



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