XFS (read-only) support committed to CURRENT

[Craig Rodrigues]

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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Craig Rodrigues        
rodrigc at crodrigues.org