On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 05:58:05PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Hum, so I didn't quite think through my comment about on disk format :). > When you create filesystem with larger inodes, mke2fs will indeed create > inodes with extra timestamp fields etc. ext4 driver will recognize them > and use them, however ext2 driver happily ignores them (I thought we refuse > to mount such filesystem but we don't because of the way how large inodes > were defined in the ondisk format). Well, if we *cared* we could backport the support for the expanded timestamps to ext2. I'm not sure it's worth the effort, but it's not that hard.... - Ted
