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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (16 children)

So should ext3 be deprecated for the same reason? Seems it also has the 2038 problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3

E: Seams -> Seems

[–] nyan 17 points 4 months ago

If I recall correctly, ext3 is ext2 with journalling on top, so they can't really get rid of ext2 without also ditching ext3.

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