Hi All! Glat to report that the website has been updated with the new reproducible XFS images https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/-/merge_requests/202
xfsprogs features will be available from 6.18.0 Thanks! L. On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM Luca DiMaio <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, I've tried creating a gitlab account on salsa.debian.org but was > rejected, any specific way I would need to do it or someone to contact to fix > this? > Thanks a lot! > > L. > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM Luca DiMaio <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Thanks a lot! >> >> L. >> >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM Arnout Engelen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2025, at 15:46, Luca DiMaio via rb-general wrote: >> > >> > Dear list >> > >> > As of this week xfsprogs 6.17.0 has been released and included is the >> > patch that I managed to submit: >> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git/commit/?id=8a4ea72724930cfe262ccda03028264e1a81b145 >> > >> > It is now possible to populate an XFS filesystem, similarly to how ext4 >> > works >> > >> > >> > Cool! >> > >> > I'd like to contribute to the docs of >> > https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/system-images/ to add an XFS >> > section >> > could someone point me to the repo/mailing list for that? >> > >> > >> > That's at >> > https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/-/blob/master/_docs/system_images.md?ref_type=heads >> > >> > >> > Kind regards, >> > >> > Arnout >> > >> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM Luca DiMaio <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > At the moment we're at v7 of the patch set which adds ability to >> > > populate from a directory, much like ext4: >> > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/[email protected]/T/#t >> > > >> > > By default atime/ctime/crtime is set to `gettimeofday()` while mtime >> > > is preserved >> > > that can be easily worked around with something like `libfaketime` or >> > > similar libraries to enforce a date >> > > >> > > L. >> > > >> > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM Bernhard M. Wiedemann >> > > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > >> > > > 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. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Arnout Engelen >> > Engelen Open Source >> > https://engelen.eu >> >
