Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Ben, On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:51:47 +0100 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 17:10 +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: > > 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. I guess we can only warn about the warning and say that ... what exactly? I don't think you're suggesting we should now go figure out what to advise to update the used /boot partition? Paul
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