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
>
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