linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] quota: use time64

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Message-ID: <20160619162021.GA6882@quack2.suse.cz>
Date:	Sun, 19 Jun 2016 18:20:21 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quota: use time64_t internally

On Fri 17-06-16 22:03:16, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The quota subsystem has two formats, the old v1 format using architecture
> specific time_t values on the on-disk format, while the v2 format
> (introduced in Linux 2.5.16 and 2.4.22) uses fixed 64-bit little-endian.
> 
> While there is no future for the v1 format beyond y2038, the v2 format
> is almost there on 32-bit architectures, as both the user interface
> and the on-disk format use 64-bit timestamps, just not the time_t
> inbetween.
> 
> This changes the internal representation to use time64_t, which will
> end up doing the right thing everywhere for v2 format.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Thanks. I've added the patch to my tree and will push it to Linus in the
next merge window.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR