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| author |  Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
| 2024-02-22 10:50:01 +0100 |
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| committer |  Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
| 2024-02-22 11:14:42 +0100 |
| commit | b960e8093e7a57de98724931d17b2fa86ff1105f (patch) | |
| tree | ba3031e81671f7d262e8978b35c7943ffca253be /fs/ext2 | |
| parent | udf: convert to new mount API (diff) | |
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ext2: mark as deprecated
Add a DEPRECATED keyword to the kernel parameter description,
to warn users that this filesystem doesn't support dates beyond 2038.
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-Id: <20240222095001.137660-1-michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext2')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext2/Kconfig | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext2/Kconfig b/fs/ext2/Kconfig index 74d98965902e..d6cfb1849580 100644 --- a/fs/ext2/Kconfig +++ b/fs/ext2/Kconfig @@ -1,16 +1,23 @@ # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only config EXT2_FS - tristate "Second extended fs support" + tristate "Second extended fs support (DEPRECATED)" select BUFFER_HEAD select FS_IOMAP select LEGACY_DIRECT_IO help Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks. - To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the - module will be called ext2. + This filesystem driver is deprecated because it does not properly + support inode time stamps beyond 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. - If unsure, say Y. + Ext2 users are advised to use ext4 driver to access their filesystem. + The driver is fully compatible, supports filesystems without journal + or extents, and also supports larger time stamps if the filesystem + is created with at least 256 byte inodes. + + This code is kept as a simple reference for filesystem developers. + + If unsure, say N. config EXT2_FS_XATTR bool "Ext2 extended attributes" |