Bug 2216118

Summary: [RHEL9] mkfs.xfs manpage indicates sparse is disabled by default
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Pavel Reichl <preichl>
Component: xfsprogsAssignee: Pavel Reichl <preichl>
Status: VERIFIED --- QA Contact: Zorro Lang <zlang>
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Version: 9.3CC: chorn, ddouwsma, lherbolt, preichl, xzhou
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Fixed In Version: xfsprogs-5.19.0-3.el9 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Clone Of: 2118564 Environment:
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Comment 1 Zorro Lang 2023-07-09 13:53:27 UTC
# rpm -q xfsprogs
xfsprogs-5.19.0-2.el9.x86_64
# man mkfs.xfs
...
                   sparse[=value]
                          Enable sparse inode chunk allocation. The value is either 0 or 1, with 1 signifying that sparse allocation is enabled.  If the value is omitted, 1  is  assumed. Sparse inode allocation is disabled by default. This feature is only available for filesystems formatted with -m crc=1.

# rpm -q xfsprogs
xfsprogs-5.19.0-3.el9.x86_64
# man mkfs.xfs
...
                   sparse[=value]
                          Enable sparse inode chunk allocation. The value is either 0 or 1, with 1 signifying that sparse allocation is enabled.  If the value is omitted, 1  is  assumed. Sparse inode allocation is enabled by default. This feature is only available for filesystems formatted with -m crc=1.

Comment 5 Zorro Lang 2023-07-23 10:58:23 UTC
# rpm -q xfsprogs
xfsprogs-5.19.0-3.el9.x86_64
# man mkfs.xfs
...
                   sparse[=value]
                          Enable sparse inode chunk allocation. The value is either 0 or 1, with 1 signifying that sparse allocation is enabled.  If the value is omitted, 1  is  assumed. Sparse inode allocation is enabled by default. This feature is only available for filesystems formatted with -m crc=1.