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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: [patch] ext4fs rw
To:
Thomas de Grivel <thodg@kmx.io>
Cc:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:16:25 +0000

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On 2026/03/17 20:04, Thomas de Grivel wrote:
> https://www.kmx.io/static/patches/OpenBSD-current-ext4fs.diff
> 
> SHA256 : deeabe0d87b9c839563aa0c2dc67198bc6802ee8aedc100028f5648601b448c6
> 
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 7:26 PM Thomas de Grivel <thodg@kmx.io> wrote:
> >
> > Hi tech@,
> >
> > Here is a patch to attach ext4fs drives to OpenBSD with full ext4
> > support (compatible with recent Linux).
> >
> > Performances are 610MB/s read/write vs 830MB/s for FFS2 on an NVMe.
> >
> > No journalling. Recovery at mount time not tested.
> >
> > All tests pass e2fstools / e2fsck without trouble. Please test and
> > reply without too much flames as I'm rather new to the kernel side of
> > development.
> >
> > I hope this helps,
> >
> > Cheers,
> 

from your blog entry,

"No Linux source files were ever read to build this driver. It's pure AI
(ChatGPT and Claude-code) and careful code reviews and error checking
and building kernel and rebooting/testing from my part."

not sure what the copyright situation is regarding this, certainly those
LLMs will have been trained on code including GPL...