From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Luca DiMaio <luca.dimaio@chainguard.dev>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Scott Moser <smoser@chainguard.dev>,
Dimitri Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@chainguard.dev>
Subject: Re: Reproducible XFS Filesystems Builds for VMs
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 22:39:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z_yffXTi0iU6S_st@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKBQhKVi6FWNWJH2PWUA4Ue=aSrvVcR_r2aJOUh45Nd0YdnxVA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Luca,
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 04:38:10PM +0200, Luca DiMaio wrote:
> EXT4 addresses this issue with the -d flag, which allows populating
> from an archive or directory without mounting.
> Is there similar functionality available for XFS, or is there interest
> in developing a method for generating reproducible XFS root
> filesystems?
>
> I'm asking this because we'd be interested in using XFS as a filesystem for the
> final product.
mkfs.xfs supports the -p protofile option which allows populating the
file system with existing files and directories at mkfs time. Can you
that and reports if it helps? If not we might be able to look into
fixing issues with note. Note that the protofile is a little arcane
so read the documentation carefully.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-14 5:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-11 14:38 Reproducible XFS Filesystems Builds for VMs Luca DiMaio
2025-04-14 5:39 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-04-14 16:53 ` Luca DiMaio
2025-04-16 5:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-16 5:55 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-04-16 14:50 ` Luca DiMaio
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