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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:11:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:11:22 +0000 |
| commit | b20732900e4636a467c0183a47f7396700f5f743 (patch) | |
| tree | 42f079ff82e701ebcb76829974b4caca3e5b6798 /fs/ext2/Kconfig | |
| parent | Adding upstream version 6.8.12. (diff) | |
| download | linux-b20732900e4636a467c0183a47f7396700f5f743.tar.xz linux-b20732900e4636a467c0183a47f7396700f5f743.zip | |
Adding upstream version 6.9.7.upstream/6.9.7
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext2/Kconfig')
| -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 74d9896590..d6cfb18495 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" |