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7.5 was also quite slow for desktop IME. Maybe the last two releases have sped things up.

What Id love is a journaling file system and extended attributes personally...

> What Id love is a journaling file system.

Same; that would really improve the remote router scenario. I've had a router refuse to boot up after a power outage until I manually ran a disk check. I'd like to at least be able to force start-up no matter what, but journaling is the proper fix.

Agreed! I think the only other solution (at present) is to mount as much of the system read-only as possible to minimize the risk of needing to `fsck` after an unclean shutdown. That and putting it behind a UPS, but of course that only lasts so many hours.

https://github.com/kusumi/openbsd_hammer2

https://github.com/kusumi/makefs

Maybe? As a starting point?

> This repository will be abandoned once Linux or FreeBSD is stabilized with write support. OpenBSD is not the main area of interest.

This doesn't inspire confidence. OpenBSD is famous for how well the base system is integrated (even compared to other BSDs). I wouldn't trust base's stability to an arbitrary set of patches.

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