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Change all option list specifications to ".Bl -tag -width Ds". Most man
pages just needed their -width parameter tweaked to "Ds", which provides
a nice width of 6 constant characters. For consistency more than anything.

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.Dd August 14, 1998
.Dt MOUNT_XFS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mount_xfs
.Nd mount the xfs filesystem
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm mount_xfs
.Op Fl o Ar options
.Ar char-device
.Ar mount-point
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
command mounts one of the xfs character devices.
The character device is used
for communication with a user-land cachemanager and fileprovider.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl o Ar options
Options are specified with a
.Fl o
flag followed by a comma separated string of options.
See the
.Xr mount 8
man page for possible options and their meanings.
.El
.Pp
The xfs filesystem was written primarily to make a free, AFS-compatible
filesystem (Arla).
But since the xfs interface is simple and generic
it could be used for other filesystems as well.
.\"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr afsd 8 ,
.Xr mount 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility first appeared in OpenBSD 2.4.