On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:10 AM Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> wrote: > > Once upon a time, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> said: > > What about squashfs? We use that for the live media, is that affected? > > There's also vfat (for EFI system partition) and ISO9660 (base for all > media). How do they handle dates? > --
FAT filesystems are good for a while longer, though not as long as most others. Squashfs and ISO9660 are read only, which makes them less of an ongoing concern. The big issue with ext4, xfs, and btrfs is that those filesystems can live for a very long time. When trying to figure out an issue with kernel-install recently, I noticed that the root filesystem on that machine was created 10 years ago, the motherboard/CPU/RAM on the system have been replaced twice since then. I expect there are plenty of cases with filesystems around much longer than that. I know xfs does have options to convert an existing filesystem to bigtime, so it isn't hopeless for long lived filesystems, but now that bigtime has been out for a while (it was introduced in 5.10), it is about time that we start using it by default. The big concern with doing so from the start was that older kernels could not mount it, so the wait did make sense. Justin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
