On 2026/03/23 13:34, Renaud Allard wrote:
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> On 3/23/26 1:25 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > That's exactly the question I had in mind without daring to post it. Besides
> > > that, is ext2 actually useful either? Does it still have any practical use
> > > nowadays?
> > 
> > There aren't many filesystems with rw access on both Linux and OpenBSD
> > (IIUC FFSv2 is ro on Linux if it works at all) and of the ones which do
> > exist, this is a lot more unix-ish than FAT32...
> > 
> FAT32 might be needed to access some boot loaders.
> But no one uses ext2 or ext3 in prod anymore in linux. Besides, mounting
> that from OpenBSD would probably be even rarer. The only use I could see is
> someone dual booting linux and OpenBSD and wanting to use an antiquated
> filesystem to share data,

*exactly* (and if ext4 support were added to ext2fs it would be more useful)

> with all the risks about data corruption.

it isn't rocket science ..