Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | config XFS_FS |
| 2 | tristate "XFS filesystem support" |
David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | depends on BLOCK |
Christoph Hellwig | d296d30 | 2009-01-19 02:02:57 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | select EXPORTFS |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | help |
| 6 | XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated |
| 7 | on the SGI IRIX platform. It is completely multi-threaded, can |
| 8 | support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes, |
| 9 | variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of |
| 10 | Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance |
| 11 | and scalability. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Refer to the documentation at <http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/> |
| 14 | for complete details. This implementation is on-disk compatible |
| 15 | with the IRIX version of XFS. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the |
| 18 | module will be called xfs. Be aware, however, that if the file |
| 19 | system of your root partition is compiled as a module, you'll need |
| 20 | to use an initial ramdisk (initrd) to boot. |
| 21 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | config XFS_QUOTA |
Nathan Scott | 538524a | 2005-11-03 13:55:06 +1100 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | bool "XFS Quota support" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | depends on XFS_FS |
| 25 | help |
| 26 | If you say Y here, you will be able to set limits for disk usage on |
| 27 | a per user and/or a per group basis under XFS. XFS considers quota |
| 28 | information as filesystem metadata and uses journaling to provide a |
| 29 | higher level guarantee of consistency. The on-disk data format for |
| 30 | quota is also compatible with the IRIX version of XFS, allowing a |
| 31 | filesystem to be migrated between Linux and IRIX without any need |
| 32 | for conversion. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | If unsure, say N. More comprehensive documentation can be found in |
| 35 | README.quota in the xfsprogs package. XFS quota can be used either |
| 36 | with or without the generic quota support enabled (CONFIG_QUOTA) - |
| 37 | they are completely independent subsystems. |
| 38 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | config XFS_POSIX_ACL |
Nathan Scott | 20ba028 | 2005-09-08 15:34:58 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | bool "XFS POSIX ACL support" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | depends on XFS_FS |
Christoph Hellwig | ef14f0c | 2009-06-10 17:07:47 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | select FS_POSIX_ACL |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | help |
| 44 | POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and |
| 45 | groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for |
| 48 | Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. |
| 51 | |
Nathan Scott | 20ba028 | 2005-09-08 15:34:58 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | config XFS_RT |
Nathan Scott | d7ede1a | 2006-06-13 16:28:11 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | bool "XFS Realtime subvolume support" |
| 54 | depends on XFS_FS |
Nathan Scott | 20ba028 | 2005-09-08 15:34:58 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | help |
| 56 | If you say Y here you will be able to mount and use XFS filesystems |
Nathan Scott | d7ede1a | 2006-06-13 16:28:11 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | which contain a realtime subvolume. The realtime subvolume is a |
| 58 | separate area of disk space where only file data is stored. It was |
| 59 | originally designed to provide deterministic data rates suitable |
| 60 | for media streaming applications, but is also useful as a generic |
| 61 | mechanism for ensuring data and metadata/log I/Os are completely |
| 62 | separated. Regular file I/Os are isolated to a separate device |
| 63 | from all other requests, and this can be done quite transparently |
| 64 | to applications via the inherit-realtime directory inode flag. |
Nathan Scott | 20ba028 | 2005-09-08 15:34:58 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | |
Nathan Scott | d7ede1a | 2006-06-13 16:28:11 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 66 | See the xfs man page in section 5 for additional information. |
Nathan Scott | 20ba028 | 2005-09-08 15:34:58 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | |
| 68 | If unsure, say N. |
Christoph Hellwig | 7788fae | 2008-04-21 17:22:27 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | |
| 70 | config XFS_DEBUG |
| 71 | bool "XFS Debugging support (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 72 | depends on XFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 73 | help |
| 74 | Say Y here to get an XFS build with many debugging features, |
| 75 | including ASSERT checks, function wrappers around macros, |
| 76 | and extra sanity-checking functions in various code paths. |
| 77 | |
| 78 | Note that the resulting code will be HUGE and SLOW, and probably |
| 79 | not useful unless you are debugging a particular problem. |
| 80 | |
| 81 | Say N unless you are an XFS developer, or you play one on TV. |