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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>,
	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	gregkh <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	sj1557.seo@samsung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 09/14] exfat: add misc operations
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:23:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200116102307.GA16662@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200116101947.4szdyfwpyasv5vpe@pali>

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:19:47AM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
>   However, implementations should only record the value 00h for this
>   field when:
> 
>     1. Local date and time are actually the same as UTC, in which case
>        the value of the OffsetValid field shall be 1
> 
>     2. Local date and time are not known, in which case the value of the
>        OffsetValid field shall be 1 and implementations shall consider
>        UTC to be local date and time

Given time zones in Linux are per session I think our situation is
somewhat similar to 2.

> > Here I would just convert to UTC, which is what we store in the
> > in-memory struct inode anyway.
> 
> Ok. If inode timestamp is always in UTC, we should do same thing also
> for exFAT.

> Hm... both UTC and sys_tz have positives and negatives. And I'm not
> sure which option is better.

The one big argument for always UTC is simplicity.  Always using UTC
kills some arcane an unusual (for Linux file systems) code, and given
how exfat implementations deal with the time zone on reading should
always interoperate fine with other implementations.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-16 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20200115082818epcas1p4892a99345626188afd111ee263132458@epcas1p4.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24 ` [PATCH v10 00/14] add the latest exfat driver Namjae Jeon
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082819epcas1p3303009557f8bf670b47991530f380ef7@epcas1p3.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 01/14] exfat: add in-memory and on-disk structures and headers Namjae Jeon
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082819epcas1p3825d5bed592a8378ad26254d07d59b18@epcas1p3.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 02/14] exfat: add super block operations Namjae Jeon
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082820epcas1p34ebebebaf610fd61c4e9882fca8ddbd5@epcas1p3.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 03/14] exfat: add inode operations Namjae Jeon
2020-01-15 10:25       ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-15 13:39         ` Namjae Jeon
2020-01-17  9:25       ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-17 11:17       ` Pali Rohár
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082821epcas1p3db1f70cf53185c40934c3a754c65e648@epcas1p3.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 04/14] exfat: add directory operations Namjae Jeon
2020-01-17 11:13       ` Pali Rohár
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082821epcas1p4d76d8668dfac70ae3e3889d4ccb6c3ee@epcas1p4.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 05/14] exfat: add file operations Namjae Jeon
2020-01-15  9:56       ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-15 13:07         ` Namjae Jeon
2020-01-17  9:18       ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-17 12:12         ` Namjae Jeon
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082822epcas1p37aca37dad0aa9159d7eddde01edfeec2@epcas1p3.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 06/14] exfat: add fat entry operations Namjae Jeon
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082822epcas1p384d080724d8bb0a8cd4c3e3015a0895c@epcas1p3.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 07/14] exfat: add bitmap operations Namjae Jeon
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082823epcas1p27ec5ff6d384f148d826529f573173b04@epcas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 08/14] exfat: add exfat cache Namjae Jeon
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082824epcas1p4eb45d088c2f88149acb94563c4a9b276@epcas1p4.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 09/14] exfat: add misc operations Namjae Jeon
2020-01-15 10:10       ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-15 13:30         ` Namjae Jeon
2020-01-15 13:38           ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-15 13:50             ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-15 14:24               ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-15 15:03                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-15 15:39                   ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-15 15:52                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-16 10:19                       ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-16 10:23                         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-01-16 16:00                           ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-17  2:59                       ` Namjae Jeon
2020-01-17 10:13                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-17 12:13                           ` Namjae Jeon
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082824epcas1p23a0fa255a5833c6dcd2479b384f37740@epcas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 10/14] exfat: add nls operations Namjae Jeon
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082825epcas1p1f22ddca6dbf5d70e65d3b0e3c25c3a59@epcas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 11/14] exfat: add Kconfig and Makefile Namjae Jeon
2020-01-15  9:39       ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-17  4:22         ` Namjae Jeon
2020-01-17  9:12           ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-17 11:59             ` Namjae Jeon
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082825epcas1p4a0d63d53d8737a84fe8867bc1e63811e@epcas1p4.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 12/14] exfat: add exfat in fs/Kconfig and fs/Makefile Namjae Jeon
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082826epcas1p117191a39ecccaef5a9b5cbe77b05c5a5@epcas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 13/14] MAINTAINERS: add exfat filesystem Namjae Jeon
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200115082826epcas1p3475ce2b4d03234dc96ced428be582eb3@epcas1p3.samsung.com>
2020-01-15  8:24     ` [PATCH v10 14/14] staging: exfat: make staging/exfat and fs/exfat mutually exclusive Namjae Jeon
2020-01-15  8:56       ` Greg KH
2020-01-15 13:06         ` Namjae Jeon
2020-01-15  9:47   ` [PATCH v10 00/14] add the latest exfat driver Pali Rohár
2020-01-15 13:05     ` Namjae Jeon
2020-01-16 10:51     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-16 11:32       ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-16 13:01       ` Greg KH

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