Hi, Officially, ext4 can handle its timestamps until 2514 with 32bit entries plus EPOCH_BIT (2bits). But when timestamps values use 32+ bit (e.g. 2038-01-19 9:14:08 0x0000000080000000), we can get corrupted values. Because sign bit is overwritten by transferring value between kernel space and user space. This can be happened with kernel 3.0.0-rc2 (Also older kernel) on x86_64. # This issue is already on Bugzilla, does anybody know this current status? https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23732 Reproduce steps are as follows: # System time is set to UTC. # mount -t ext4 /dev/sda8 /mnt/mp1 # touch -t 203801190314.08 /mnt/mp1/FILE # umount /mnt/mp1 # mount -t ext4 /dev/sda8 /mnt/mp1 # stat /mnt/mp1/FILE File: `/mnt/mp1/FILE' Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty file Device: 808h/2056d Inode: 12 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 1901-12-13 20:45:52.000000000 +0000 <----- Modify: 1901-12-13 20:45:52.000000000 +0000 <----- Change: 2011-06-10 03:57:39.595385951 +0100 Birth: - Regards, Akira Fujita -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
