Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!ftp!jbvb
From: jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: NeFS protocol
Summary: Did the draft you saw still use 'long' seconds since 1-Jan-70?
Message-ID: <1015@ftp.COM>
Date: 30 May 90 19:08:24 GMT
References: <265DFDA9.58A5@intercon.com>
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In article <265DFDA9.58A5@intercon.com>, amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
> After reading through the NeFS draft, my principal reaction is, "OK, how
> long until they finalize it so that people can implement it?"

I read the draft of 12-Feb-90, and saw various levels of precision
(file size of 64 bits, time resolution to the nanosecond) that might
be looked on as overkill, but they stuck with 32 bits (unsigned, this
time) of seconds since 1-Jan-1970 as the low-resolution component of
the time format.  One or two more bits would probably suffice for
everything except interstellar probes and nuclear waste dump
monitoring systems, but I wouldn't design anything of this potential
scope to expire in 2106 CE.


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