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diff --git a/share/man/man5/xfs.5 b/share/man/man5/xfs.5 index e9931cd..4465484 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/xfs.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/xfs.5 @@ -66,13 +66,23 @@ port contains the .Cm mkfs.xfs utility for creating XFS file systems, and also other utilities for analyzing, -and repairing XFS file systems. +and repairing XFS file systems. .Sh CAVEATS The port of XFS to .Fx is currently incomplete. Only read-only access is supported for XFS volumes. Writing to a volume is not supported. +.Pp +The +.Fl p +flag to +.Cm mkfs.xfs +can be used to create an XFS file system which is populated with files +and other metadata. +This can be used to quickly create a read-only file system which +can be tested on +.Fx . .Sh HISTORY XFS was originally written by SGI for the IRIX operating system. SGI ported XFS to Linux, and released the source code under the GNU |
