Re: [PATCH] quota: use time64_t internally

[Jan Kara]

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@xxxxxxxx>

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

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR