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Re: partman recipes and deprecation of ext2



Hi,

Am 10. November 2024 01:50:18 MEZ schrieb Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
>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?


There is also a MR on this, BTW:
<https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-auto/-/merge_requests/8>


Holger



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