On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 12:17:06AM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote: > >> Is there any reason to believe this would be too small of a value in the > >> future? Or is a 32 bit unsigned good enough? > > > > The linux kernel took ~10 years to produce 500k commits. Even assuming > > those were all linear (and they're not), that gives us ~80,000 years of > > leeway. So even if the pace of development speeds up or we have a > > quicker project, it still seems we have a pretty reasonable safety > > margin. > > I didn't read the patches closely, but isn't it ~20,000 years? > > Given that '#define GENERATION_NUMBER_MAX 0x3FFFFFFF', that is. ;-) What, I'm supposed to read the patches before responding? Heresy. -Peff
