On 05/30/2014 01:01 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > ext3fs uses unsigned 32-bit seconds for inode timestamps, which will work > for the next 92 years, but the VFS uses struct timespec for timestamps, > which is only good until 2038 on 32-bit CPUs. > > This gets us one small step closer to lifting the VFS limit by using > struct inode_time in ext3. The on-disk format limit is lifted in ext4, > which will work until 2514. > This may be what the spec says, but when I experimented with this just now it does seem that both ext2 and ext3 actually interpret timestamps as *signed* 32-bit seconds. -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
