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Linux NTFS3 Driver Will Now Support Timestamps Prior To 1970 (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@toast.ooo to c/linux@programming.dev

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While NTFSPLUS continues to be developed as a new and modern NTFS open-source driver for Linux systems, at the moment NTFS3 from Paragon Software remains the most capable NTFS file-system driver within the mainline kernel. For the Linux 6.19 merge window a variety of fixes have landed for this driver.

While likely to not see too much use in practice, the NTFS3 driver with Linux 6.19 can now support timestamps prior to the year 1970. The first change noted for NTFS3 in the new kernel is pre-Epoch timestamps support for handling dates prior to the start of Unix time on 1 January 1970. NTFS3 had been relying on an unsigned 64-bit type but has now switched to a signed 64-bit type for coping with pre-epoch timestamps. The issue was raised by the xfstests program testing the file-system. But for anyone that may happen to have pre-1970 timestamps, Linux 6.19 fixes things up for NTFS3.

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[–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I set the timestamps of my music to its original release date, so that I can sort it chronologically... OK, I don't actually do that, but now I'm tempted

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

I was having an anxiety attack for a second.