Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -1 partman-auto Control: retitle -1 partman-auto: Use ext4 filesystem for /boot if boot loader supports it Control: reassign -2 release-notes Control: retitle -2 release-notes: Recommend converting /boot from ext2 to ext4 if possible Control: tag -2 bullseye On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 17:10 +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > > > Dear Maintainers, > > I did a test installation using debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso from > 2021-03-15 (Debian bullseye/11), chose the LVM option, > and noticed that once the system is installed and boots, the kernel > complains with this message: > > ext2 filesystem being mounted at /boot supports timestamps until > 2038 (0x7fffffff) > > This is not fatal, but is ugly and most people would prefer a system > without this message. > > The problem comes from the fact that the boot partition is created as > ext2 with 128 bytes inodes. I think that the installer uses ext2 for /boot because some boot loaders only support(ed) ext2 and not its successor filesystem formats. But I think that's an historical problem for most release architectures. > One fix would be to create the /boot filesystem as ext4 with 256 > bytes inodes. On architectures where we install GRUB by default, I think this would be a sensible change. > The same problem exists in the Debian buster installer and will show > up when buster systems are upgraded to a 5.10 kernel. Since we don't have a specific upgrade program, I think the best we can do about this is to document it in the release notes. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up.
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