On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 04:27:35PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> > > The mkfs manpage says that the extent size, cow extent size, realtime, > and project id inheritance bits are passed on to "newly created > children". This isn't technically true -- it's only passed on to newly > created regular files and directories. It is not passed on to special > files. > > Fix this minor inaccuracy in the documentation. > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx> > man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 | 12 ++++++++---- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > diff --git a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 > index 9d762a43011a..7d3f3552ff12 100644 > --- a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 > +++ b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 > @@ -285,7 +285,8 @@ Set the copy-on-write extent size hint on all inodes created by > .BR mkfs.xfs "." > The value must be provided in units of filesystem blocks. > If the value is zero, the default value (currently 32 blocks) will be used. > -Directories will pass on this hint to newly created children. > +Directories will pass on this hint to newly created regular files and > +directories. > .TP > .BI name= value > This can be used to specify the name of the special file containing > @@ -380,20 +381,23 @@ this information. > If set, all inodes created by > .B mkfs.xfs > will be created with the realtime flag set. > -Directories will pass on this flag to newly created children. > +Directories will pass on this flag to newly created regular files and > +directories. > .TP > .BI projinherit= value > All inodes created by > .B mkfs.xfs > will be assigned this project quota id. > -Directories will pass on the project id to newly created children. > +Directories will pass on the project id to newly created regular files and > +directories. > .TP > .BI extszinherit= value > All inodes created by > .B mkfs.xfs > will have this extent size hint applied. > The value must be provided in units of filesystem blocks. > -Directories will pass on this hint to newly created children. > +Directories will pass on this hint to newly created regular files and > +directories. > .RE > .TP > .B \-f > -- Carlos
