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    ext4: drop legacy pre-1970 encoding workaround · cd2d9922
    Theodore Ts'o authored
    Originally, support for expanded timestamps had a bug in that pre-1970
    times were erroneously encoded as being in the the 24th century.  This
    was fixed in commit a4dad1ae ("ext4: Fix handling of extended
    tv_sec") which landed in 4.4.  Starting with 4.4, pre-1970 timestamps
    were correctly encoded, but for backwards compatibility those
    incorrectly encoded timestamps were mapped back to the pre-1970 dates.
    
    Given that backwards compatibility workaround has been around for 4
    years, and given that running e2fsck from e2fsprogs 1.43.2 and later
    will offer to fix these timestamps (which has been released for 3
    years), it's past time to drop the legacy workaround from the kernel.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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