From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 13 15:58:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4D416A41F for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:58:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from db@nipsi.de) Received: from mr01.hansenet.de (mr01.hansenet.de [213.191.74.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB9A443D5E for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:58:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from db@nipsi.de) Received: from depression.metaspinner.local (213.39.242.178) by mr01.hansenet.de (7.2.060.1) id 439E56D200004763; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:57:57 +0100 Received: from depression.metaspinner.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by depression.metaspinner.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 203757BC23; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:57:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.162] (unknown [192.168.1.162]) by depression.metaspinner.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90077BC16; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:57:56 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <439EEF87.8040908@nipsi.de> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:57:59 +0100 From: Dennis Berger User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Rodrigues References: <20051213151908.GA26821@crodrigues.org> In-Reply-To: <20051213151908.GA26821@crodrigues.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: checked Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFS (read-only) support committed to CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:58:50 -0000 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. > > >