Re: [PATCH] ext4: explain encoding of 34-bit a,c,mtime values

["Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 07:30:18PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 02:56:54AM -0500, David Turner wrote:
> > b. Use Andreas's encoding, which is incompatible with pre-1970 files
> > written on 64-bit systems.
> >
> > I don't care about currently-existing post-2038 files, because I believe
> > that nobody has a valid reason to have such files.  However, I do
> > believe that pre-1970 files are probably important to someone.
> > 
> > Despite this, I prefer option (b), because I think the simplicity is
> > valuable, and because I hate to give up date ranges (even ones that I
> > think we'll "never" need). Option (b) is not actually lossy, because we
> > could correct pre-1970 files with e2fsck; under Andreas's encoding,
> > their dates would be in the far future (and thus cannot be legitimate).
> > 
> > Would a patch that does (b) be accepted?  I would accompany it with a
> > patch to e2fsck (which I assume would also go to the ext4 developers
> > mailing list?).
> 
> I agree, I think this is the best way to go.  I'm going to drop your
> earlier patch, and wait for an updated patch from you.  It may miss
> this merge window, but as Andreas has pointed out, we still have a few
> years to get this right.  :-)

Just to be clear... we're going with Andreas' fix, wherein

time->tv_sec |= (__u64)(le32_to_cpu(extra) & EXT4_EPOCH_MASK) << 32;

becomes:

time->tv_sec += (__u64)(le32_to_cpu(extra) & EXT4_EPOCH_MASK) << 32;

"or" becomes "plus"?  So I can update fuse2fs.

Also, can someone proofread [1] and make sure it's correct?

--D

[1] https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Disk_Layout#Inode_Timestamps
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> 					- Ted
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