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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.
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