Are there any real advantages of ext4 over ext2 ?

[Manish Jain]

On 2020-07-09 04:44, David Christensen wrote:
> I recently learned that FreeBSD supports ext2 and have formatted a USB 
> HDD with ext2 for this reason, but have yet to test it with FreeBSD.

ext2 works very well under FreeBSD. I have been using ext2fs for ages 
under FreeBSD. The support is smooth and reliable. All you need to do is 
kldload linux.

ext4 works under FreeBSD via fuse-ext2, which unfortunately is quite 
slow as on date.

ZFS, as you correctly point out, is another option that I will keep in 
mind in future.


Thanks,
Manish Jain