- 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
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.
Re:OpenBSD on a Laptop
by dredmorbius on Saturday November 03, 2018 @07:08PM
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Is there FS-wrapper support on OBSD?
NetBSD can read ext3/4 with a puffs filesystem driver... these days it can support ext4 extents natively as well, just not journalling.
Puffs is the NetBSD version of FUSE, and there is even a FUSE-to-puffs adapter so you can mount FUSE filesystems under NetBSD.
- how do i read ext4/fat/etc usb sticks from coworkers. - is 3d or video support good with AMD? - soundcard and full disk encryption? what about EFI boot?