Also I could write manual pages for OpenBSD UFS internals now. Should I try ?

On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 2:16 PM Kevin Chadwick
<kc-openbsd@chadwicks.me.uk> wrote:
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> > 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...
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> Assuming newfs always creates ffs2 these days even on a 1G fob then it works
> with mount -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2,ro. On Devuan (Debian 13/Trixie) it says
> compiled with read-only support. The man page says "used in FreeBSD 5.x
> supported as read-write" but not sure if I would trust it even if it had worked.
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> I find exfat from packages/ports works across OpenBSD, Linux, Android, Windows
> and I believe Apple devices. It has some naming quirks but is generally okay.
> Quite slow on OpenBSD though.
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> All the best,
>              Kevin Chadwick
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