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Originally Posted by Oko
Why should NetBSD support ext2 at all? If you want to use ext2 use Linux.
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That's what I've been doing so far. And that's why I have two external hard drives formatted in ext2, which contain backups of all my important data. So it would be really nice if I could just mount these external hard drives on a NetBSD system and copy some of the files from the external hard disk to a NetBSD system. Can you see how that might become useful?
I find it kind of weird that *BSD systems and Linux don't seem to be in talking terms. Mounting Linux file systems on a *BSD system is difficult, and Linux seems to have equally poor support for the BSD ufs/ffs file systems. These are all FOSS, which means that the source code is available for everyone, so it's a bit of a mystery to me why BSD and Linux cannot exchange files more easily.