Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:02:06 -0500 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> To: Dennis Berger <db@nipsi.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFS (read-only) support committed to CURRENT Message-ID: <20051213170206.GA29628@crodrigues.org> In-Reply-To: <439EEF87.8040908@nipsi.de> References: <20051213151908.GA26821@crodrigues.org> <439EEF87.8040908@nipsi.de>
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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. -- Craig Rodrigues rodrigc@crodrigues.org
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