On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 10:06 AM Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
Andrei Borzenkov composed on 2024-10-28 09:38 (UTC+0300):
Felix Miata wrote:
I'm in process of eliminating EXT2 & EXT3 filesystems from old computers, due to the year 2038 date problem that might arrive before my termination. Using:
tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/sdb1
How is all of this related to the year 2038 or timestamps in general?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
# dmesg | egrep '2038|pports' … [ 70.533547] [ T674] ext2 filesystem being mounted at /disks/boot supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff) [ 74.896089] [ T637] ext3 filesystem being mounted at /disks/s131 supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff) [ 75.457770] [ T638] ext3 filesystem being mounted at /disks/stwt supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff) [ 75.507264] [ T634] ext3 filesystem being mounted at /disks/s123 supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff) [ 77.426041] [ T654] ext3 filesystem being mounted at /disks/s132 supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff) [ 85.148371] [ T700] ext3 filesystem being mounted at /home supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff) [ 91.470229] [ T706] ext3 filesystem being mounted at /pub supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff) [ 94.088198] [ T711] ext3 filesystem being mounted at /usr/local supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff) #
That does not answer my question. Explain how any of these options is related to timestamps. You must have had some reasons to use them.