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From: brent@terra.Eng.Sun.COM (Brent Callaghan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: NeFS protocol
Message-ID: <136422@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 31 May 90 01:09:50 GMT
References: <265DFDA9.58A5@intercon.com> <1015@ftp.COM>
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In article <1015@ftp.COM>, jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen) writes:
> 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.

Nanosecond resolution is required by Svr4.  I don't know of any
server that currently requires this resolution - but you never know...

I'd be very happy if this protocol outlives me - let alone my 
grandchildren.  Perhaps by 2106 we will almost be converted
over to OSI protocols  :-)

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