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11da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig XFS_FS
21da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "XFS filesystem support"
3*9361401eSDavid Howells	depends on BLOCK
41da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
51da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated
61da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on the SGI IRIX platform.  It is completely multi-threaded, can
71da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes,
81da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of
91da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance
101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and scalability.
111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Refer to the documentation at <http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/>
131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for complete details.  This implementation is on-disk compatible
141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with the IRIX version of XFS.
151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called xfs.  Be aware, however, that if the file
181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system of your root partition is compiled as a module, you'll need
191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to use an initial ramdisk (initrd) to boot.
201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig XFS_QUOTA
22538524aeSNathan Scott	bool "XFS Quota support"
231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on XFS_FS
241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will be able to set limits for disk usage on
261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  a per user and/or a per group basis under XFS.  XFS considers quota
271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information as filesystem metadata and uses journaling to provide a
281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  higher level guarantee of consistency.  The on-disk data format for
291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  quota is also compatible with the IRIX version of XFS, allowing a
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  filesystem to be migrated between Linux and IRIX without any need
311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for conversion.
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.  More comprehensive documentation can be found in
341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  README.quota in the xfsprogs package.  XFS quota can be used either
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with or without the generic quota support enabled (CONFIG_QUOTA) -
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  they are completely independent subsystems.
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig XFS_SECURITY
3920ba0287SNathan Scott	bool "XFS Security Label support"
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on XFS_FS
411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Security labels support alternative access control models
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  implemented by security modules like SELinux.  This option
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  enables an extended attribute namespace for inode security
451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  labels in the XFS filesystem.
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you are not using a security module that requires using
481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  extended attributes for inode security labels, say N.
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds
501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig XFS_POSIX_ACL
5120ba0287SNathan Scott	bool "XFS POSIX ACL support"
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on XFS_FS
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6220ba0287SNathan Scottconfig XFS_RT
63d7ede1aaSNathan Scott	bool "XFS Realtime subvolume support"
64d7ede1aaSNathan Scott	depends on XFS_FS
6520ba0287SNathan Scott	help
6620ba0287SNathan Scott	  If you say Y here you will be able to mount and use XFS filesystems
6720ba0287SNathan Scott	  which contain a realtime subvolume.  The realtime subvolume is a
68d7ede1aaSNathan Scott	  separate area of disk space where only file data is stored.  It was
69d7ede1aaSNathan Scott	  originally designed to provide deterministic data rates suitable
70d7ede1aaSNathan Scott	  for media streaming applications, but is also useful as a generic
71d7ede1aaSNathan Scott	  mechanism for ensuring data and metadata/log I/Os are completely
72d7ede1aaSNathan Scott	  separated.  Regular file I/Os are isolated to a separate device
73d7ede1aaSNathan Scott	  from all other requests, and this can be done quite transparently
74d7ede1aaSNathan Scott	  to applications via the inherit-realtime directory inode flag.
7520ba0287SNathan Scott
76d7ede1aaSNathan Scott	  See the xfs man page in section 5 for additional information.
7720ba0287SNathan Scott
7820ba0287SNathan Scott	  If unsure, say N.
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