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Similarly, trying to make sure that software will work in the year 292 Billion AD might not be all something that most people would consider high priority. After all, it's.... unlikely... that the x86_64 architecture will still be what we will be using 290 billion years from now. So if we need recompile the kernel sometime in the next 100 billion years for some new CPU architecture, and if it's unlikely that hard drives brought brand new are likely to be still in operation a decade or two from now --- there is plenty of time to evolve the on-disk format before a billion years go by, let alone 100 billion or 200 billion years.