Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
Technically you are correct, but I still think it's much more likely an ext2 issue. Ramiro could experiment with rsync to ext2 on internal drive, and rsync to ffs on the same external drive that is troublesome.
