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Date:      Thu, 14 May 2026 23:24:07 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-branches@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 01d5910b8766 - stable/15 - pkg-stage.sh: Add ext2 and ntfs
Message-ID:  <b1249511-d2e6-4900-9281-4b113c4fcc5e@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <agaU-uSr2EzjC1-M@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <6a061a2c.25c2f.7465fc96@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <agaU-uSr2EzjC1-M@FreeBSD.org>

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On 5/14/26 20:37, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 06:53:32PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
>> commit 01d5910b8766671afdbd9e274fd62b397aca9e1a
>>
>>    pkg-stage.sh: Add ext2 and ntfs
>>
>>    Having these packages available on release media may help users who
>>    need to sneakernet other packages (e.g. firmware) from systems running
>>    Linux or Windows.
> 
> FreeBSD supports extfs (rw) natively, what's the need for FUSE-ext2?

The "ext2" fusefs port also handles ext3 and ext4.  Poorly named port, I
suppose...

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



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