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1config XFS_FS
2	tristate "XFS filesystem support"
3	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
20config XFS_QUOTA
21	bool "XFS Quota support"
22	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
38	bool "XFS Security Label support"
39	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
50	bool "XFS POSIX ACL support"
51	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
61config XFS_RT
62	bool "XFS Realtime subvolume support"
63	depends on XFS_FS
64	help
65	  If you say Y here you will be able to mount and use XFS filesystems
66	  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.
74
75	  See the xfs man page in section 5 for additional information.
76
77	  If unsure, say N.
78