On 05/30/2014 05:37 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > > IOWs, the filesystem has to be able to reject any attempt to set a > timestamp that is can't represent on disk otherwise Bad Stuff will > happen, Actually it is questionable if it is worse to reject a timestamp or just let it wrap. Rejecting a valid timestamp is a bit like "You don't exist, go away." > and filesystems have to be able to specify in their on > disk format what timestamp encoding is being used. The solution will > be different for every filesystem that needs to support time beyond > 2038. Actually the cutoff can be really different for each filesystem, not necessarily 2038. However, I maintain the above still holds. Consider a filesystem that kept timestamps in YYMMDDHHMMSS format. What would you have expected such a filesystem to do on Jan 1, 2000? -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
