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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001config XFS_FS
2 tristate "XFS filesystem support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003 help
4 XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated
5 on the SGI IRIX platform. It is completely multi-threaded, can
6 support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes,
7 variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of
8 Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance
9 and scalability.
10
11 Refer to the documentation at <http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/>
12 for complete details. This implementation is on-disk compatible
13 with the IRIX version of XFS.
14
15 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
16 module will be called xfs. Be aware, however, that if the file
17 system of your root partition is compiled as a module, you'll need
18 to use an initial ramdisk (initrd) to boot.
19
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070020config XFS_QUOTA
Nathan Scott538524a2005-11-03 13:55:06 +110021 bool "XFS Quota support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070022 depends on XFS_FS
23 help
24 If you say Y here, you will be able to set limits for disk usage on
25 a per user and/or a per group basis under XFS. XFS considers quota
26 information as filesystem metadata and uses journaling to provide a
27 higher level guarantee of consistency. The on-disk data format for
28 quota is also compatible with the IRIX version of XFS, allowing a
29 filesystem to be migrated between Linux and IRIX without any need
30 for conversion.
31
32 If unsure, say N. More comprehensive documentation can be found in
33 README.quota in the xfsprogs package. XFS quota can be used either
34 with or without the generic quota support enabled (CONFIG_QUOTA) -
35 they are completely independent subsystems.
36
37config XFS_SECURITY
Nathan Scott20ba0282005-09-08 15:34:58 +100038 bool "XFS Security Label support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070039 depends on XFS_FS
40 help
41 Security labels support alternative access control models
42 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
43 enables an extended attribute namespace for inode security
44 labels in the XFS filesystem.
45
46 If you are not using a security module that requires using
47 extended attributes for inode security labels, say N.
48
49config XFS_POSIX_ACL
Nathan Scott20ba0282005-09-08 15:34:58 +100050 bool "XFS POSIX ACL support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070051 depends on XFS_FS
52 help
53 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
54 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
55
56 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
57 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
58
59 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
60
Nathan Scott20ba0282005-09-08 15:34:58 +100061config XFS_RT
Nathan Scottd7ede1a2006-06-13 16:28:11 +100062 bool "XFS Realtime subvolume support"
63 depends on XFS_FS
Nathan Scott20ba0282005-09-08 15:34:58 +100064 help
65 If you say Y here you will be able to mount and use XFS filesystems
Nathan Scottd7ede1a2006-06-13 16:28:11 +100066 which contain a realtime subvolume. The realtime subvolume is a
67 separate area of disk space where only file data is stored. It was
68 originally designed to provide deterministic data rates suitable
69 for media streaming applications, but is also useful as a generic
70 mechanism for ensuring data and metadata/log I/Os are completely
71 separated. Regular file I/Os are isolated to a separate device
72 from all other requests, and this can be done quite transparently
73 to applications via the inherit-realtime directory inode flag.
Nathan Scott20ba0282005-09-08 15:34:58 +100074
Nathan Scottd7ede1a2006-06-13 16:28:11 +100075 See the xfs man page in section 5 for additional information.
Nathan Scott20ba0282005-09-08 15:34:58 +100076
77 If unsure, say N.