On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 10:07:49AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > Sorry I missed that comment earlier. I've had a fresh look now, but > > I think we still need to deprecate XFS_IOC_SWAPEXT and add a > > v5 version of it, since the comparison will fail as soon as the range > > of the inode timestamps is extended beyond 2038, otherwise the > > comparison will always be false, or require comparing the truncated > > time values which would add yet another representation. > > I prefer we replace the old SWAPEXT with a new version to get rid of > struct xfs_bstat. Though a SWAPEXT_V5 probably only needs to contain > the *stat fields that swapext actually needs to check that the file > hasn't been changed, which would be ino/gen/btime/ctime. > > (Maybe I'd add an offset/length too...)
And most importantly we need to lift it to the VFS instead of all the crazy fs specific interfaces at the moment. _______________________________________________ Y2038 mailing list Y2038@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/y2038
