Re: projected life of the ext2 filesystem format
mmagallo@efis.ucr.ac.cr (Marcelo E. Magallon) wrote on 27.01.98 in <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980127131517.3627A-100000@simula.efis.ucr.ac.cr>:
> On 27 Jan 1998 bruce@va.debian.org wrote:
>
> > ext2 uses _unsigned_ 32-bit words for time, so it will survive until about
> > 2106. At that point you'll have to back up and reformat.
>
> Ok, I have scheduled that. Now, where can I keep my schedule to prevent it
> from getting lost for the next 107 years, hmmm...
>
> Question: does this mean that a file can't have its creation date before
> 1970? But the system date can be set before 1970? I hate this stupid
> limitations on Linux! ;-)
It does - which means that Bruce's interpretation is wrong, because I do
have files with dates of 1969 on my disk (and so has everybody who
installed doc-rfc).
Of course, in reality, it's irrelevant what ext2 uses (so long as it's 32
bits), because ext2 doesn't interpret those dates. Linux, OTOH, does.
Which means reformat in 2038.
MfG Kai
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