Re: "beyond 2038" warnings from loopback mount is noisy

From: Qian Cai
Date: Tue Sep 03 2019 - 14:15:54 EST


On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 09:36 -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> We might also want to consider updating the file system the LTP is
> being run on here.

It simply format (mkfs.ext4) a loop back device on ext4 with the kernel.

CONFIG_EXT4_FS=m
# CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT2 is not set
# CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
# CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY is not set
# CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG is not set

using e2fsprogs-1.44.6. Do you mean people now need to update the kernel to
enable additional config to avoid the spam of warnings now?