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partman recipes and deprecation of ext2



Hi all,

The ext2 filesystem uses 32-bit timestamps and will be unable to
represent timestamps beyond early 2038.  It is now deprecated in Linux
for this reason.

As we're generally moving to 64-bit time times in the trixie release, I
think it's time to address this in partman, so far as possible.

Currently many of the partman recipes specify ext2 for the /boot
partition.  In some cases I expect that this is necessary due to
limitations of older boot loaders.  For mainstream architectures using
GRUB to boot, ext4 can be used for the /boot partition.

Should I start proposing specific changes or does someone else have
time to work on this?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes
instead of old ones.

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