<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div>On Fri, Oct 24, 2025, at 15:46, Luca DiMaio via rb-general wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>Dear list</div><div><br></div><div>As of this week xfsprogs 6.17.0 has been released and included is the</div><div>patch that I managed to submit:</div><div><a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git/commit/?id=8a4ea72724930cfe262ccda03028264e1a81b145">https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git/commit/?id=8a4ea72724930cfe262ccda03028264e1a81b145</a></div><div><br></div><div>It is now possible to populate an XFS filesystem, similarly to how ext4 works</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cool!</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>I'd like to contribute to the docs of</div><div><a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/system-images/">https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/system-images/</a> to add an XFS</div><div>section</div><div>could someone point me to the repo/mailing list for that?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's at <a href="https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/-/blob/master/_docs/system_images.md?ref_type=heads">https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/-/blob/master/_docs/system_images.md?ref_type=heads</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Arnout</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM Luca DiMaio <<a href="http://luca.dimai">luca.dimai</a>o@<a href="http://chainguard.dev">chainguard.dev</a>> wrote:</div><div>></div><div>> At the moment we're at v7 of the patch set which adds ability to</div><div>> populate from a directory, much like ext4:</div><div>> <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20250426135535.1904972-1-luca.dimaio1@gmail.com/T/#t">https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20250426135535.1904972-1-luca.dimaio1@gmail.com/T/#t</a></div><div>></div><div>> By default atime/ctime/crtime is set to `gettimeofday()` while mtime</div><div>> is preserved</div><div>> that can be easily worked around with something like `libfaketime` or</div><div>> similar libraries to enforce a date</div><div>></div><div>> L.</div><div>></div><div>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM Bernhard M. Wiedemann</div><div>> <<a href="mailto:bernhardout@lsmod.de">bernhardout@lsmod.de</a>> wrote:</div><div>> ></div><div>> > On 16/04/2025 16.55, Luca DiMaio via rb-general wrote:</div><div>> > > At the moment I've opened an RFC in the XFS mailing list, to improve their</div><div>> > > prototype file functionality, in particular to carry over the inode's timestamps</div><div>> > > from source:</div><div>> ></div><div>> > If these include ctime and atime, those are usually hard to reproduce in</div><div>> > a filesystem.</div><div>> > It would probably be good to have an option to clamp timestamps to a</div><div>> > maximum, similar to tar's --clamp-mtime option or set them all to a</div><div>> > given constant value.</div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div id="sig124436424"><div class="signature">-- </div><div class="signature">Arnout Engelen</div><div class="signature">Engelen Open Source</div><div class="signature"><a href="https://engelen.eu">https://engelen.eu</a></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>