On Saturday 31 May 2014 16:51:15 Richard Cochran wrote: > 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-disk format can work[1]. > > Why are some of the time stamp expiration dates marked as "never"? It's an approximation: 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]. Arnd [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
