Re: [PATCH 01/10] fs: turn inode ctime fields into a single ktime_t

Christian Brauner
2024-07-02T11:43:15Z

> if the
> kernel silently tries to accept and fixup the breakage, it is nice in the
> short term (no complaining users) but it tends to get ugly in the long term
> (where tend people come up with nasty cases where it was wrong to fix it
> up).

Yeah, very much agree. It works for simple APIs sometimes but it's
certainly not something we should just do for filesystems with actual
on-disk format.