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by snazz 2788 days ago
- reading ext4 is possible but hard (OpenBSD doesn’t support journaling filesystems); you’re better off with ext2 or FAT - video support with AMD GPUs is good, much better than NVIDIA - OpenBSD has a good sound stack that supports most audio systems - full disk encryption is easy to set up and mentioned in the article - UEFI and GPT work wonderfully on recent versions
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What's the reason for missing journaling file systems? Lack of developers? Design choice for code simplification? Security reasons? Or something else?
I guess the same as with support for, say, NTFS, plus less incentive to work on it, since it’s less popular.
Similar with FreeBSD (use geli for encryption) and I believe ext4 read support works now.
Is there FS-wrapper support on OBSD?