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Re:Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 by shp0ngle on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:04AM (#27882185)
Linux is on every Android phone. You can argue whether it's "real linux" or not, but that is besides the point with respect to filesystem drivers?

(I don't have a clue what does Android actually use for filesystem drivers, but I would _guess_ it's just Linux down there.)

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Re:Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 by pjc50 on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:10AM (#27882247)
> Linux is on every Android phone

Yes, and almost all consumer routers and quite a lot of other random pieces of hardware. Hence the billions of users.

How many of those pay for upstream maintainers?

> I don't have a clue what does Android actually use for filesystem drivers

"Yaffs" or "sparse" (which is just fancy ext2). https://source.android.com/devices/bootloader/images ; most Android kernels will also have exfat so they can use SD cards and USB sticks.

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