Re: [RFC 13/32] ext3: convert to struct inode_time

H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-31T09:11:46Z

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