On 5 Aug 2025, at 21:21, Stefan Eßer <s...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > The branch main has been updated by se: > > URL: > https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=024f676b399fc8acee7288c543d32c581328833c > > commit 024f676b399fc8acee7288c543d32c581328833c > Author: Stefan Eßer <s...@freebsd.org> > AuthorDate: 2025-08-05 20:12:18 +0000 > Commit: Stefan Eßer <s...@freebsd.org> > CommitDate: 2025-08-05 20:12:18 +0000 > > sbin/newfs_msdos: add support for exFAT file systems > > Add support for the creation of exFAT file systems, if invoked as > newfs_exfat.
Why should newfs support creating file systems that cannot even be read by anything in-tree? This is just confusing to users, they’ll try creating such file systems and then complain it doesn’t work, and rightly so. It’s not even documented in the manpage that you can’t actually use the result of this on FreeBSD, but even if you did that, people won’t read it, as they’ll reasonably expect that newfs produces things FreeBSD can use. This also breaks cross-building from non-FreeBSD. Jessica
