On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:34:12PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Typically they are using 64-bit signed seconds.
Okay, that is what I wanted to know.
Thanks,
Richard
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On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 05:23:02PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 31 May 2014 16:51:15 Richard Cochran wrote:
> >
> > Why are some of the time stamp expiration dates marked as "never"?
>
> It's an approximation:
Also, the term "never" mi
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 05:23:02PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> It's an approximation:
(Approximately never ;)
> with 64-bit timestamps, you can represent close to 300 billion
> years, which is way past the time that our planet can sustain
> life of any form[1].
Did you mean mean 64 bits wor
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:01:24PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> I picked this because it is a fairly isolated problem, as the
> inode time stamps are rarely assigned to any other time values.
> As a byproduct of this work, I documented for each of the file
> systems we support how long the on-d
