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Craig Rodrigues

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Dec 13, 2005, 10:21:03 AM12/13/05
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Hi,

Read-only XFS support has been committed to FreeBSD-CURRENT.
Write access to XFS is not supported at this time.
The XFS for FreeBSD source code is based off of GPL'd sources
provided by SGI.

You can compile it into your kernel by adding "XFS" to your
kernel config file, or you can "kldload xfs".

If you have an XFS partition on your system, you can try mounting it
with:
mount -t xfs [device] [mntpoint]

Additional utilities such as mkfs.xfs are available in the sysutils/xfsprogs
port.

Many thanks to Alexander Kabaev and Russell Cattelan for
starting and doing most of the work on the XFS for FreeBSD port,
and also to SGI for making the XFS source code freely available.

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Dennis Berger

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Dec 13, 2005, 10:59:54 AM12/13/05
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Craig Rodrigues wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Read-only XFS support has been committed to FreeBSD-CURRENT.
>Write access to XFS is not supported at this time.
>The XFS for FreeBSD source code is based off of GPL'd sources
>provided by SGI.
>
>You can compile it into your kernel by adding "XFS" to your
>kernel config file, or you can "kldload xfs".
>
>If you have an XFS partition on your system, you can try mounting it
>with:
>mount -t xfs [device] [mntpoint]
>
>Additional utilities such as mkfs.xfs are available in the sysutils/xfsprogs
>port.
>
>

what does mkfs.xfs do on a read-only XFS filesystem?
when is write support be expected?
besides these are great NEWS
best regards,
Dennis

>Many thanks to Alexander Kabaev and Russell Cattelan for
>starting and doing most of the work on the XFS for FreeBSD port,
>and also to SGI for making the XFS source code freely available.
>
>
>

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Craig Rodrigues

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Dec 13, 2005, 12:05:56 PM12/13/05
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 04:57:59PM +0100, Dennis Berger wrote:
> what does mkfs.xfs do on a read-only XFS filesystem?

You can format a device with mkfs.xfs and mount it as read-only.
mksfs.xfs accepts a -p flag, which lets you write dummy metadata
(i.e. directory entries) when you format the partition for XFS.

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Martin Wilke

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Dec 13, 2005, 2:16:43 PM12/13/05
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