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1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2config XFS_FS
3	tristate "XFS filesystem support"
4	depends on BLOCK
5	select EXPORTFS
6	select LIBCRC32C
7	select FS_IOMAP
8	help
9	  XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated
10	  on the SGI IRIX platform.  It is completely multi-threaded, can
11	  support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes,
12	  variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of
13	  Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance
14	  and scalability.
15
16	  Refer to the documentation at <http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/>
17	  for complete details.  This implementation is on-disk compatible
18	  with the IRIX version of XFS.
19
20	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
21	  module will be called xfs.  Be aware, however, that if the file
22	  system of your root partition is compiled as a module, you'll need
23	  to use an initial ramdisk (initrd) to boot.
24
25config XFS_SUPPORT_V4
26	bool "Support deprecated V4 (crc=0) format"
27	depends on XFS_FS
28	default y
29	help
30	  The V4 filesystem format lacks certain features that are supported
31	  by the V5 format, such as metadata checksumming, strengthened
32	  metadata verification, and the ability to store timestamps past the
33	  year 2038.  Because of this, the V4 format is deprecated.  All users
34	  should upgrade by backing up their files, reformatting, and restoring
35	  from the backup.
36
37	  Administrators and users can detect a V4 filesystem by running
38	  xfs_info against a filesystem mountpoint and checking for a string
39	  beginning with "crc=".  If the string "crc=0" is found, the
40	  filesystem is a V4 filesystem.  If no such string is found, please
41	  upgrade xfsprogs to the latest version and try again.
42
43	  This option will become default N in September 2025.  Support for the
44	  V4 format will be removed entirely in September 2030.  Distributors
45	  can say N here to withdraw support earlier.
46
47	  To continue supporting the old V4 format (crc=0), say Y.
48	  To close off an attack surface, say N.
49
50config XFS_QUOTA
51	bool "XFS Quota support"
52	depends on XFS_FS
53	select QUOTACTL
54	help
55	  If you say Y here, you will be able to set limits for disk usage on
56	  a per user and/or a per group basis under XFS.  XFS considers quota
57	  information as filesystem metadata and uses journaling to provide a
58	  higher level guarantee of consistency.  The on-disk data format for
59	  quota is also compatible with the IRIX version of XFS, allowing a
60	  filesystem to be migrated between Linux and IRIX without any need
61	  for conversion.
62
63	  If unsure, say N.  More comprehensive documentation can be found in
64	  README.quota in the xfsprogs package.  XFS quota can be used either
65	  with or without the generic quota support enabled (CONFIG_QUOTA) -
66	  they are completely independent subsystems.
67
68config XFS_POSIX_ACL
69	bool "XFS POSIX ACL support"
70	depends on XFS_FS
71	select FS_POSIX_ACL
72	help
73	  POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
74	  groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
75
76	  If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
77
78config XFS_RT
79	bool "XFS Realtime subvolume support"
80	depends on XFS_FS
81	help
82	  If you say Y here you will be able to mount and use XFS filesystems
83	  which contain a realtime subvolume.  The realtime subvolume is a
84	  separate area of disk space where only file data is stored.  It was
85	  originally designed to provide deterministic data rates suitable
86	  for media streaming applications, but is also useful as a generic
87	  mechanism for ensuring data and metadata/log I/Os are completely
88	  separated.  Regular file I/Os are isolated to a separate device
89	  from all other requests, and this can be done quite transparently
90	  to applications via the inherit-realtime directory inode flag.
91
92	  See the xfs man page in section 5 for additional information.
93
94	  If unsure, say N.
95
96config XFS_ONLINE_SCRUB
97	bool "XFS online metadata check support"
98	default n
99	depends on XFS_FS
100	help
101	  If you say Y here you will be able to check metadata on a
102	  mounted XFS filesystem.  This feature is intended to reduce
103	  filesystem downtime by supplementing xfs_repair.  The key
104	  advantage here is to look for problems proactively so that
105	  they can be dealt with in a controlled manner.
106
107	  This feature is considered EXPERIMENTAL.  Use with caution!
108
109	  See the xfs_scrub man page in section 8 for additional information.
110
111	  If unsure, say N.
112
113config XFS_ONLINE_REPAIR
114	bool "XFS online metadata repair support"
115	default n
116	depends on XFS_FS && XFS_ONLINE_SCRUB
117	help
118	  If you say Y here you will be able to repair metadata on a
119	  mounted XFS filesystem.  This feature is intended to reduce
120	  filesystem downtime by fixing minor problems before they cause the
121	  filesystem to go down.  However, it requires that the filesystem be
122	  formatted with secondary metadata, such as reverse mappings and inode
123	  parent pointers.
124
125	  This feature is considered EXPERIMENTAL.  Use with caution!
126
127	  See the xfs_scrub man page in section 8 for additional information.
128
129	  If unsure, say N.
130
131config XFS_WARN
132	bool "XFS Verbose Warnings"
133	depends on XFS_FS && !XFS_DEBUG
134	help
135	  Say Y here to get an XFS build with many additional warnings.
136	  It converts ASSERT checks to WARN, so will log any out-of-bounds
137	  conditions that occur that would otherwise be missed. It is much
138	  lighter weight than XFS_DEBUG and does not modify algorithms and will
139	  not cause the kernel to panic on non-fatal errors.
140
141	  However, similar to XFS_DEBUG, it is only advisable to use this if you
142	  are debugging a particular problem.
143
144config XFS_DEBUG
145	bool "XFS Debugging support"
146	depends on XFS_FS
147	help
148	  Say Y here to get an XFS build with many debugging features,
149	  including ASSERT checks, function wrappers around macros,
150	  and extra sanity-checking functions in various code paths.
151
152	  Note that the resulting code will be HUGE and SLOW, and probably
153	  not useful unless you are debugging a particular problem.
154
155	  Say N unless you are an XFS developer, or you play one on TV.
156
157config XFS_ASSERT_FATAL
158	bool "XFS fatal asserts"
159	default y
160	depends on XFS_FS && XFS_DEBUG
161	help
162	  Set the default DEBUG mode ASSERT failure behavior.
163
164	  Say Y here to cause DEBUG mode ASSERT failures to result in fatal
165	  errors that BUG() the kernel by default. If you say N, ASSERT failures
166	  result in warnings.
167
168	  This behavior can be modified at runtime via sysfs.
169