Reproducible XFS Filesystems Builds for VMs

Bernhard M. Wiedemann bernhardout at lsmod.de
Thu Apr 24 13:46:29 UTC 2025


On 16/04/2025 16.55, Luca DiMaio via rb-general wrote:
> At the moment I've opened an RFC in the XFS mailing list, to improve their
> prototype file functionality, in particular to carry over the inode's timestamps
> from source:

If these include ctime and atime, those are usually hard to reproduce in 
a filesystem.
It would probably be good to have an option to clamp timestamps to a 
maximum, similar to tar's --clamp-mtime option or set them all to a 
given constant value.


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