Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:57:59 +0100 From: Dennis Berger <db@nipsi.de> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFS (read-only) support committed to CURRENT Message-ID: <439EEF87.8040908@nipsi.de> In-Reply-To: <20051213151908.GA26821@crodrigues.org> References: <20051213151908.GA26821@crodrigues.org>
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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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