Re: partman recipes and deprecation of ext2

2024-11-10 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Am 10. November 2024 01:50:18 MEZ schrieb Ben Hutchings : >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 relea

Re: partman recipes and deprecation of ext2

2024-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2024-11-10 at 12:36 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On 10/11/2024 at 01:50, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > 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. > > What e

Re: partman recipes and deprecation of ext2

2024-11-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 10/11/2024 at 02:43, Felix Miata wrote: Last week I was under a misunderstanding that upgrading EXT2 filesystems to EXT4 would be a satisfactory solution to eventual 64 bit timestamp support necessity, Upgrade of existing filesystems is outside of partman scope. Simply switching to EXT4 f

Re: partman recipes and deprecation of ext2

2024-11-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hi Ben, On 10/11/2024 at 01:50, Ben Hutchings wrote: 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. What exactly is deprecated ? The ext2 standalone driver (which is disabled in Debian k

Re: partman recipes and deprecation of ext2

2024-11-09 Thread jose . r . r
On 2024-11-09 19:30, Felix Miata wrote: jose.r.r composed on 2024-11-09 19:12 (UTC-0800): Felix Miata wrote: ... Niltze [Hello], Mr. 'Team OS/2' peer - Have you considered using JFS for your /boot partition(s)? Just a suggestion, of course! The "J" in JFS means journal…, correct? My use

Re: partman recipes and deprecation of ext2

2024-11-09 Thread Felix Miata
jose.r.r composed on 2024-11-09 19:12 (UTC-0800): > Felix Miata wrote: ... > Niltze [Hello], Mr. 'Team OS/2' peer - > Have you considered using JFS for your /boot partition(s)? Just a > suggestion, of course! The "J" in JFS means journal…, correct? My use of EXT2 was intended originally due to

Re: partman recipes and deprecation of ext2

2024-11-09 Thread jose . r . r
On 2024-11-09 17:43, Felix Miata wrote: Ben Hutchings composed on 2024-11-10 01:50 (UTC+0100): 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 time

Re: partman recipes and deprecation of ext2

2024-11-09 Thread Felix Miata
Ben Hutchings composed on 2024-11-10 01:50 (UTC+0100): > 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 i

partman recipes and deprecation of ext2

2024-11-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
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.