On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 06:07:32PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > The current explanation is a bit vague to the uninitiated; > clarify the text to make it obvious that while the mkfs.xfs > utility is able to create valid filesystems with block sizes > up to 65536, the Linux kernel can only mount filesystems with > page sized or smaller blocks. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 > index 1fe510b..980c7bc 100644 > --- a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 > +++ b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 > @@ -126,7 +126,10 @@ or in bytes with > .BR size= . > The default value is 4096 bytes (4 KiB), the minimum is 512, and the > maximum is 65536 (64 KiB). > -XFS on Linux currently only supports pagesize or smaller blocks. > +Although > +.B mkfs.xfs > +will accept any of these values and create a valid filesystem, > +XFS on Linux can only mount filesystems with pagesize or smaller blocks. > .TP > .BI \-m " global_metadata_options" > These options specify metadata format options that either apply to the entire > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
