Re: filesystems and year 2038

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On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 02:51:52PM -0500, Justin Forbes wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 11:47 AM Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, creating a thread on this from:
> > https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-config/pull/1650
> >
> > Basically I'd propose that not just our default images have y2038-compatible filesystem setups, we ensure that if e.g. XFS is explicitly chosen for a Workstation installation then it is set up with bigtime=1.
> >
> > (Note btrfs uses 64 bit time today, so I think this is mostly about ext4 and xfs, but perhaps we also need to look at the longer tail too, e.g. squashfs.  OTOH, because squashfs is read-only we can just worry about that closer to 10 years from now...)
> >
> > If no one objects I guess I can look at re-learning Mediawiki syntax again and writing a Change.
> 
> Or, you could ignore it and it will happen anyway:
> 
> xfsprogs-5.15.0-rc1 (11 Mar 2022)
> - mkfs: enable inobtcount and bigtime by default (Darrick J. Wong)

Just a note that RHEL 8 will be able to read and write (but not
create) these filesystems.

The RHEL bug is for some reason private, but if you can read private
bugs it's:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022903

Rich.

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