Re: git: 01d5910b8766 - stable/15 - pkg-stage.sh: Add ext2 and ntfs

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From: Colin Percival <cperciva_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 06:24:07 UTC

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
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