On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

isofs uses a 'char' variable to load the number of years since
1900 for an inode timestamp. On architectures that use a signed
char type by default, this results in an invalid date for
anything beyond 2027.

This adds a cast to 'u8' for the year number, which should extend
the shelf life of the file system until 2155.

Oops, the CD archive of my scanned Napoleon manuscripts no longer has the
right file date? ;-)

Are there any practical uses of representating dates between 1772 and 1900
on CD/DVD?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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