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Subject: Re: New nanosecond stat patch for 2.5.44
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> We probably need to revamp struct stat anyway, to support a larger
> dev_t, and possibly a larger ino_t (we should account for 64-bit ino_t
> at least if we have to redesign the structure.)  At that point I would
> really like to advocate for int64_t ts_sec and uint32_t ts_nsec and
> quite possibly a int32_t ts_taidelta to deal with leap seconds... I'd
> personally like struct timespec to look like the above everywhere.

For filesystems can we get away with just the 64-bit nanoseconds?  By my 
calculations that gives something like 584 years--do we need to worry 
about files older than that?

Chris



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