The chattr(1) manpage suffers from the same problems mount(1) had: many options listed, not kept up to date for various filesystems. I've submitted a manpage update for chattr(1) which says to refer to filesystem-specific manpages for supported attributes; this patch updates xfs(5) to list the attributes supported by xfs. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/man/man5/xfs.5 b/man/man5/xfs.5 index 5e47c4c..3214455 100644 --- a/man/man5/xfs.5 +++ b/man/man5/xfs.5 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .TH xfs 5 .SH NAME -xfs \- layout and mount options for the XFS filesystem +xfs \- layout, mount options, and supported file attributes for the XFS filesystem .SH DESCRIPTION An XFS filesystem can reside on a regular disk partition or on a logical volume. @@ -302,7 +302,27 @@ namespace is on stable storage. This is useful in HA setups where failover must not result in clients seeing inconsistent namespace presentation during or after a failover event. +.SH FILE ATTRIBUTES +The XFS filesystem supports setting the following file +attributes on Linux systems using the +.BR chattr (1) +utility: +.sp +.BR a " - append only" +.sp +.BR A " - no atime updates" +.sp +.BR d " - no dump" +.sp +.BR i " - immutable" +.sp +.BR S " - synchronous updates" +.sp +For descriptions of these attribute flags, please refer to the +.BR chattr (1) +man page. .SH SEE ALSO +.BR chattr (1), .BR xfsctl (3), .BR mount (8), .BR mkfs.xfs (8), _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
