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From:
Thomas de Grivel <thodg@kmx.io>
Subject:
Re: [patch] ext4fs rw
To:
Renaud Allard <renaud@allard.it>, tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:49:41 +0100

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 1:41 PM Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2026/03/23 13:34, Renaud Allard wrote:
> > On 3/23/26 1:25 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>
> > 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 ..

exactly, even me without any knowledge of kernel-land and a stupid AI
tool could go through it, let's try at least ? What I really want is
journalling but I don't know hw to do it so I try to do my own.