Messages in this thread |  | | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Subject | time stamp resolution | Date | Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:25:43 -0500 (EST) |
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I notice that NTFS uses a 64-bit timestamp with 100ns resolution. Standard Unix time stamps have a few years to survive, but the resolution might be good. NT starts the clock on 1/1/1601.
(yeah, loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de has it working read-only)
I don't really want to haul around 64-bit anything, but it seems the world is moving to high-resolution clocks. The UFS code uses something high-resolution I think.
Then there are UID numbers. The Hurd, BSD, and NT all have large UID support. Some large corperations and universities actually use more than 16-bits worth of UIDs, so compatibility would be good.
If we ever get the devfs (hint, hint) Linux can run on NTFS. It has full POSIX support, including the hard links. Symbolic links will be in NT 5.0. It is not a bad filesystem, though the extensive logging might slow it down.
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