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| author | Jonathan Lebon <jonathan@jlebon.com> | 2018-04-30 09:42:11 -0400 |
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| committer | Atomic Bot <atomic-devel@projectatomic.io> | 2018-04-30 17:58:38 +0000 |
| commit | a85f06952defd341f45a53a3cdfeef66d4003de0 (patch) | |
| tree | d9ffb5d0dc46abac00d18f578affb0a45e4ff7c6 /man/ostree-init.xml | |
| parent | 54c5ab76a94bebc647cb0d80652f8d9980a2fa4d (diff) | |
| download | ostree-a85f06952defd341f45a53a3cdfeef66d4003de0.tar.gz | |
man/ostree-init: Briefly describe various modes
Closes: #1561
Closes: #1560
Approved by: cgwalters
Diffstat (limited to 'man/ostree-init.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/ostree-init.xml | 25 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man/ostree-init.xml b/man/ostree-init.xml index b74648db..b2726321 100644 --- a/man/ostree-init.xml +++ b/man/ostree-init.xml @@ -69,13 +69,24 @@ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><option>--mode</option>="MODE"</term> - <listitem><para> Initialize repository in given mode - (<literal>bare</literal>, <literal>bare-user</literal>, - <literal>archive</literal>). The default is - <literal>bare</literal>. Note that for - <literal>archive</literal> the repository configuration file - will actually have <literal>archive-z2</literal>, as that's the - historical name.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para> + Initialize repository in given mode + (<literal>bare</literal>, <literal>bare-user</literal>, + <literal>bare-user-only</literal>, <literal>archive</literal>). + The default is <literal>bare</literal>. Note that for + <literal>archive</literal> the repository configuration file + will actually have <literal>archive-z2</literal>, as that's + the historical name.</para> + + <para>See the manual for differences between these modes. + Briefly, <literal>bare</literal> mode stores files as they + are, so they can be directly hardlinked, + <literal>bare-user</literal> uses extended attributes to + store ownership and xattr information, allowing non-root + operations, <literal>bare-user-only</literal> does not store + ownership information, and <literal>archive</literal> stores + files compressed, to be served over the network. + </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |