Re: rsync to ext2 filesystem issues

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 06:46:42AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> It seems overwhelmingly likely that there are bugs in the NetBSD ext2
> implementation.  A program like rsync cannot cause a system lockup other
> than via triggering a usually-latent kernel bug.
> 
> You might try using the rump option to mount, or to see if there are
> fuse ext2fs implementations.  Perhaps between code reading and
> experiments you can find the bug.
> 
> My own approach is not to use ext2fs :-)

Actually I see occasional hangs with rsync to FFS-formatted external drives.
So we can't rule out a USB issue.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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