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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/32] making inode time stamps y2038 ready
Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 16:51:15 +0200
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To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:01:24PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> I picked this because it is a fairly isolated problem, as the
> inode time stamps are rarely assigned to any other time values.
> As a byproduct of this work, I documented for each of the file
> systems we support how long the on-disk format can work[1].

Why are some of the time stamp expiration dates marked as "never"?

Thanks,
Richard