11da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig XFS_FS 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "XFS filesystem support" 39361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 4d296d30aSChristoph Hellwig select EXPORTFS 51da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 61da177e4SLinus Torvalds XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated 71da177e4SLinus Torvalds on the SGI IRIX platform. It is completely multi-threaded, can 81da177e4SLinus Torvalds support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes, 91da177e4SLinus Torvalds variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds and scalability. 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Refer to the documentation at <http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/> 141da177e4SLinus Torvalds for complete details. This implementation is on-disk compatible 151da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the IRIX version of XFS. 161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 171da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 181da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called xfs. Be aware, however, that if the file 191da177e4SLinus Torvalds system of your root partition is compiled as a module, you'll need 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds to use an initial ramdisk (initrd) to boot. 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig XFS_QUOTA 23538524aeSNathan Scott bool "XFS Quota support" 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on XFS_FS 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to set limits for disk usage on 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds a per user and/or a per group basis under XFS. XFS considers quota 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds information as filesystem metadata and uses journaling to provide a 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds higher level guarantee of consistency. The on-disk data format for 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds quota is also compatible with the IRIX version of XFS, allowing a 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds filesystem to be migrated between Linux and IRIX without any need 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds for conversion. 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. More comprehensive documentation can be found in 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds README.quota in the xfsprogs package. XFS quota can be used either 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds with or without the generic quota support enabled (CONFIG_QUOTA) - 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds they are completely independent subsystems. 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig XFS_POSIX_ACL 4020ba0287SNathan Scott bool "XFS POSIX ACL support" 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on XFS_FS 42*ef14f0c1SChristoph Hellwig select FS_POSIX_ACL 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5220ba0287SNathan Scottconfig XFS_RT 53d7ede1aaSNathan Scott bool "XFS Realtime subvolume support" 54d7ede1aaSNathan Scott depends on XFS_FS 5520ba0287SNathan Scott help 5620ba0287SNathan Scott If you say Y here you will be able to mount and use XFS filesystems 5720ba0287SNathan Scott which contain a realtime subvolume. The realtime subvolume is a 58d7ede1aaSNathan Scott separate area of disk space where only file data is stored. It was 59d7ede1aaSNathan Scott originally designed to provide deterministic data rates suitable 60d7ede1aaSNathan Scott for media streaming applications, but is also useful as a generic 61d7ede1aaSNathan Scott mechanism for ensuring data and metadata/log I/Os are completely 62d7ede1aaSNathan Scott separated. Regular file I/Os are isolated to a separate device 63d7ede1aaSNathan Scott from all other requests, and this can be done quite transparently 64d7ede1aaSNathan Scott to applications via the inherit-realtime directory inode flag. 6520ba0287SNathan Scott 66d7ede1aaSNathan Scott See the xfs man page in section 5 for additional information. 6720ba0287SNathan Scott 6820ba0287SNathan Scott If unsure, say N. 697788fae6SChristoph Hellwig 707788fae6SChristoph Hellwigconfig XFS_DEBUG 717788fae6SChristoph Hellwig bool "XFS Debugging support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 727788fae6SChristoph Hellwig depends on XFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 737788fae6SChristoph Hellwig help 747788fae6SChristoph Hellwig Say Y here to get an XFS build with many debugging features, 757788fae6SChristoph Hellwig including ASSERT checks, function wrappers around macros, 767788fae6SChristoph Hellwig and extra sanity-checking functions in various code paths. 777788fae6SChristoph Hellwig 787788fae6SChristoph Hellwig Note that the resulting code will be HUGE and SLOW, and probably 797788fae6SChristoph Hellwig not useful unless you are debugging a particular problem. 807788fae6SChristoph Hellwig 817788fae6SChristoph Hellwig Say N unless you are an XFS developer, or you play one on TV. 82