On 23/03/26 10:45 +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 08:32:43AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2026/03/23 03:45, Thomas de Grivel wrote:
> > > I did check everything and it did look like ext2fs code with minor
> > > modifications that I fully understand to support ext4 extents and
> > > checksums it's not that big of a deal : ext4 is just ext2 with 64 bit,
> > > different checksums and extents tree walking.
> > 
> > Why standalone rather than done as diffs to ext2fs?
> > 
> 
> I wondered about the same. In general I would expect all of this be
> handled by one set of tools. Similar like we handle UFS and UFS2.
>  
> I did not check myself but it seems the Internet thinks that dragonflybsd
> has ext2/3/4 support all backed into the ext2fs implementation which is
> probably close to ours. If that is true there may be a place where a lot
> of the code can be picked up.

The other question is the usefullness of this. Do we really need ext4 support
in base?