| Alexey Dobriyan | b16ecfe | 2009-01-22 10:22:31 +0300 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | config REISERFS_FS |
| 2 | tristate "Reiserfs support" |
| 3 | help |
| 4 | Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced |
| 5 | tree. Uses journalling. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system |
| 8 | architectural foundations. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with |
| 11 | large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed |
| 12 | for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | It is more easily extended to have features currently found in |
| 15 | database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file |
| 16 | systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support |
| 17 | plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to |
| 18 | make source code open.'' |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you |
| 25 | need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | config REISERFS_CHECK |
| 28 | bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode" |
| 29 | depends on REISERFS_FS |
| 30 | help |
| 31 | If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can |
| 32 | possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its |
| 33 | operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we |
| 34 | have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the |
| 35 | latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all |
| 36 | out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its |
| 37 | effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug |
| 38 | report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost |
| 39 | everyone should say N. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | config REISERFS_PROC_INFO |
| 42 | bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs" |
| 43 | depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS |
| 44 | help |
| 45 | Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying |
| 46 | various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of |
| 47 | making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also |
| 48 | increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount. |
| 49 | Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning |
| 50 | reiserfs or tracing problems should say N. |
| 51 | |
| 52 | config REISERFS_FS_XATTR |
| 53 | bool "ReiserFS extended attributes" |
| 54 | depends on REISERFS_FS |
| 55 | help |
| 56 | Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by |
| 57 | the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit |
| 58 | <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). |
| 59 | |
| 60 | If unsure, say N. |
| 61 | |
| 62 | config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL |
| 63 | bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists" |
| 64 | depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR |
| 65 | select FS_POSIX_ACL |
| 66 | help |
| 67 | Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and |
| 68 | groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. |
| 69 | |
| 70 | To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for |
| 71 | Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N |
| 74 | |
| 75 | config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY |
| 76 | bool "ReiserFS Security Labels" |
| 77 | depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR |
| 78 | help |
| 79 | Security labels support alternative access control models |
| 80 | implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option |
| 81 | enables an extended attribute handler for file security |
| 82 | labels in the ReiserFS filesystem. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | If you are not using a security module that requires using |
| 85 | extended attributes for file security labels, say N. |