XFS(5) BSD File Formats Manual XFS(5)NAME
xfs — XFS file system
SYNOPSIS
To link into the kernel:
options XFS
To load as a kernel loadable module:
kldload xfs
DESCRIPTION
The xfs driver will permit the FreeBSD kernel to access XFS file systems.
EXAMPLES
To mount a xfs volume located on /dev/ad1s1:
mount -t xfs /dev/ad1s1 /mnt
SEE ALSOnmount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8)NOTES
The sysutils/xfsprogs port contains the mkfs.xfs utility for creating XFS
file systems, and also other utilities for analyzing, and repairing XFS
file systems.
CAVEATS
The port of XFS to FreeBSD is currently incomplete. Only read-only
access is supported for XFS volumes. Writing to a volume is not sup‐
ported.
The -p flag to 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 FreeBSD.
HISTORYXFS was originally written by SGI for the IRIX operating system. SGI
ported XFS to Linux, and released the source code under the GNU Public
License. For more details, see: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
The port to FreeBSD was based on the Linux port, and started by Russell
Cattelan ⟨cattelan@xfs.org⟩, Alexander Kabaev ⟨kan@FreeBSD.org⟩, and
Craig Rodrigues ⟨rodrigc@FreeBSD.org⟩.
The xfs file system support first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Craig Rodrigues ⟨rodrigc@FreeBSD.org⟩.
BSD June 16, 2007 BSD