hi there,

i dont have a patch for this, but i think this is a better
place for this bug report than misc@.

i have started using ext2 as an inter-OS fs some years ago,
and i have found the following anomaly/bug.

i seem to recall, that linux turns on large_file support for
an ext2 partition automatically, on kernel level, when such
a file is being written to the disk, seamlessly so to say.
they so much insist on this automatic process that there is
no way to turn this on/off using any of the e2fsprogs...

openbsd has ext2 large_file support, but because none of the
ext2 creating tools have a flag to turn this on at creation
time, it cannot be turned on explicitly... so when someone
wants to write a "large" file in openbsd on an ext2 partition
is, that the write just sits there and does nothing. after
cancelling the operation and running fsck.ext2 the flag
is miracously there and openbsd succeeds in writing the file.