Has FreeBSD 10 Dropped Support For XFS?

shachter · 10-26-2013, 10:32 PM

My FreeBSD 10.0 system is failing to recognize my XFS filesystem,
and "kldload xfs" fails. Behold:

[root@landru ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD landru 10.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 10.0-BETA1 #0 r256420: Sun Oct 13 03:46:18 UTC 2013 root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
[root@landru ~]# mount -r -t xfs /dev/linux_lvm/landruvg-ubuntu /ubuntu
mount: /dev/linux_lvm/landruvg-ubuntu: Operation not supported by device
[root@landru ~]# kldload xfs
kldload: can't load xfs: No such file or directory
[root@landru ~]# echo /boot/kernel/*xfs*
/boot/kernel/*xfs*

Yes, I did build and install sysutils/xfsprogs.

Thank you in advance for any and all replies.

jay at m5 dot chicago dot il dot us

cynwulf · 10-28-2013, 10:51 AM

It was only read only support and yes, I believe it's gone...

https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD10

ReaperX7 · 10-31-2013, 08:28 PM

FreeBSD dropped several file systems because they are hardly in usage, or FreeBSD had read-only support.

HPFS, MWFS, CODAFS, XFS, and ReiserFS were all dropped as of current.

TobiSGD · 10-31-2013, 08:46 PM

From the Wikipedia site for XFS:

Quote:

FreeBSD added read-only support for XFS in December 2005 and in June 2006 introduced experimental write support; however this is supposed to be used only as an aid in migration from Linux, not to be used as a "main" filesystem.

So I wouldn't be surprised if they have pulled the plug. After all FreeBSD lacks manpower for development and stopping maintenance for parts they deem unnecessary is a logical step.