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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:02:06 -0500
From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>
To: Dennis Berger <db@nipsi.de>
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Subject: Re: XFS (read-only) support committed to CURRENT
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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