From df005f1e086a9379839bebc57dfa4bd6db007ba6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:52:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] repart: Mention broken XFS protofile format

---
 man/repart.d.xml | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/repart.d.xml b/man/repart.d.xml
index b786202905..0303a7f536 100644
--- a/man/repart.d.xml
+++ b/man/repart.d.xml
@@ -431,6 +431,10 @@
         in a user namespace with the current user mapped to the root user to make sure the files and
         directories in the image are owned by the root user.</para>
 
+        <para>Note that when populating XFS filesystems with <command>systemd-repart</command> and loop
+        devices are not available, populating XFS filesystems with files containing spaces, tabs or newlines
+        will fail due to limitations of mkfs.xfs's protofile format.</para>
+
         <para>This option cannot be combined with <varname>CopyBlocks=</varname>.</para>
 
         <para>When