--- title: ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated | daily.dev description: After 31 years, the ext2 filesystem driver is being marked as deprecated in the upcoming 6.9 Linux kernel due to its lack of support for inode timestamps... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ext2-filesystem-driver-now-marked-as-deprecated-lozjqjehv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated | daily.dev og:description: After 31 years, the ext2 filesystem driver is being marked as deprecated in the upcoming 6.9 Linux kernel due to its lack of support for inode timestamps... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ext2-filesystem-driver-now-marked-as-deprecated-lozjqjehv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lozJqjEhv.png og:image:alt: ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary After 31 years, the ext2 filesystem driver is being marked as deprecated in the upcoming 6.9 Linux kernel due to its lack of support for inode timestamps beyond 2038. Users are advised to use the ext4 driver as a compatible alternative. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#filesystems](https://daily.dev/tags/filesystems), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ext2-filesystem-driver-now-marked-as-deprecated-lozjqjehv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ext2-filesystem-driver-now-marked-as-deprecated-lozjqjehv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ext2-filesystem-driver-now-marked-as-deprecated-lozjqjehv"},"datePublished":"2024-03-30T16:09:39.760Z","dateModified":"2025-07-28T02:18:29.109Z","description":"After 31 years, the ext2 filesystem driver is being marked as deprecated in the upcoming 6.9 Linux kernel due to its lack of support for inode timestamps...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--foaA6JGU--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2004","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--foaA6JGU--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2004","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/ext2-filesystem-driver-now-marked-as-deprecated-lozjqjehv","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"filesystems,linux","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated"}]} ```