Hello, On Wed 21-02-24 10:33:04, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > I'm wondering why ext2 isn't marked as deprecated yet as it has 32 bit dates > and dates will rollover in 2038 (in 14 years from now!). > > I'm asking because ext4, when used without a journal, seems to be a worthy > replacement and has 64 bit dates. > > I'll be happy to send a patch to fs/ext2/Kconfig to warn users. For all practical purposes I agree we expect users to use ext4 driver on a filesystem without a journal instead of ext2 driver. We are still keeping ext2 around mostly as a simple reference filesystem for other fs developers. I agree we should improve the kconfig text to reference users to ext4. Regarding y2038 problem - this is really the matter of on-disk format as created by mke2fs, not so much of the kernel driver. And the kernel will be warning about that when you mount ext2 so I don't think special handling is needed for that. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
